King v. State

THOMAS, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Perry King appeals his conviction of two counts of jail escape in the Circuit Court of Covington County. King was sentenced as an habitual offender to the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections to serve a term of five years on count one and five years on count two, with count two to run consecutively to the sentence imposed on count one. Feeling aggrieved, King appeals on the following assignments of error:

I.WHETHER THE PORTION OF THE INDICTMENT CHARGING MR. KING AS A HABITUAL OFFENDER WAS FATALLY DEFECTIVE UNDER § 169 OF THE MISSISSIPPI…