Booker v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CARLSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Chad Booker was convicted of manslaughter in the Tippah County Circuit Court, Judge Henry L. Lackey presiding, and was sentenced to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with ten years suspended and five years of post-release supervision. Booker appealed, and we assigned this case to the Court of Appeals. After the Court of Appeals affirmed the trial-court judgment, we granted Booker’s petition for writ of certiorari. Finding that no reversible error occurred at trial, we affirm the…