Bobby Pegues v. State of Mississippi

FAIR, J.,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. In April 2015, Bobby Pegues pled guilty to two counts of sale of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to eight years on each count, to be served consecutively, with one year suspended from the second sentence. Pegues subsequently filed a motion for post-conviction relief alleging, among other things, that his indictment was defective because it failed to conclude with the words “against the peace and dignity of the state.” But Pegues’s indictment does, in fact, conclude with those words, so the circuit court dismissed the PCR motion without an evidentiary…