Amos v. State

MYERS, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Tawrence Amos pleaded guilty in the Winston County Circuit Court to unauthorized possession of contraband in a correctional facility, in violation Mississippi Code Annotated section 47-5-193 (Supp. 2009). Amos later filed a motion in the circuit court for post-conviction relief (PCR), in which he claimed he was charged under the wrong statute. Finding no merit to this claim, the circuit court denied Amos’s PCR motion. We affirm the circuit court’s judgment.

FACTS

¶ 2. In July 2008, Amos, an inmate at the Winston-Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility located in…