Jones v. State

740 So.2d 904 (1999)

Mathew JONES

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 97-KA-01343-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 12, 1999.

Charles E. Miller, McComb, Attorney for Appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Scott Stuart, Attorney for Appellee.

BEFORE PRATHER, C.J., BANKS AND SMITH, JJ.

PRATHER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

¶ 1. Mathew Jones was tried and convicted in the Lincoln County Circuit Court for Count I, delivery of cocaine and, Count II, possession of cocaine. He was subsequently sentenced as an habitual criminal to sixty years in prison on Count I and six years in…