Hope v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court.

SUMMARY OF THE CASE

¶ 1. A jury sitting before the Sunflower County Circuit Court found Cleveland Hope guilty of burglary of a dwelling. The circuit court sentenced Hope to a twenty-year sentence with ten years suspended and ten years to serve followed by five years of post-release supervision and five years of unsupervised post-release supervision. Hope claims the circuit court erred when it (1) overruled his motion for a directed verdict, (2) overruled his motion for a mistrial after the burglary victim *668testified that Hope was on house arrest when their child was…