Turner v. State

478 So.2d 300 (1985)

E.D. TURNER

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 55742.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 9, 1985.

Jimmy D. McGuire, Gulfport, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Jack B. Lacy, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

E.D. Turner stands convicted in the Circuit Court of Harrison County of the crime of sale of a controlled substance: Pentazocine, Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-115(d)(6) (Supp. 1984), upon which he has been sentenced to twenty (20) years imprisonment. Miss. Code…