Roach v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CARLSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Jimmie Roach was convicted by a Hinds County jury of possession of cocaine and possession of hydromorphone. Roach was sentenced as a Mississippi Code Section 41-29-147 second/subsequent drug offender and as a Section 99-19-81 habitual offender, as to both charges, and received consecutive sentences of forty-eight years *913for the possession-of-cocaine charge and sixty years for the possession-of-hydro-morphone charge, respectively, to be served in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. See Miss. Code Ann. §…