Chambers v. State

CHANDLER, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Travis L. Chambers was convicted for the crime of sale of cocaine within fifteen hundred feet of a church in Waynesboro, Mississippi. Chambers was sentenced to a term of twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections as a prior convicted felon. Following the trial, Chambers’ motions for a JNOV or in the alternative, a new trial were denied by the trial court. Feeling aggrieved, Chambers appeals the following errors:

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