Ragland v. State

498 So.2d 373 (1986)

Perry RAGLAND

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 57197.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 19, 1986.

H.E. Kellum, III, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Deirdre McCrory, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, C.J., and DAN M. LEE and SULLIVAN, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

Perry Ragland was convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County of armed robbery and sentenced to fifteen (15) years in the State Penitentiary with ten (10) years suspended or five (5) years supervised probation and five (5) years…