Jones v. State

LEE, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. In August 1994, Darryl T. Jones was indicted on two counts, one count of murder and one count of aggravated assault. He pled guilty to the charge of aggravated assault and to a lesser charge of manslaughter. He was sentenced to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for the manslaughter charge and twenty years on the aggravated assault charge with ten years suspended and five years supervised probation, the sentences to run consecutively. In October 1998, Jones filed a motion to modify, correct and/or vacate sentence; the…