Douglas Walters v. State of Mississippi

KITCHENS, JUSTICE, .

DISSENTING:

¶37. Because I find Douglas Walters’s assignments of error to be meritorious, I would reverse the judgment and remand this case to the Circuit Court of Rankin County. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

¶ 38. First, the trial eourt erred in applying the harsher penalty provided in the earlier version of the grand larceny statute. Previously, the statute provided, in pertinent part, that “[ejvery person who shall be convicted of taking and carrying away, feloniously, the personal property of another, of the value of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more, shall…