Ragland v. State

403 So.2d 146 (1981)

Willie RAGLAND

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 52868.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 9, 1981.

William Sebastian Moore, Jackson, Patrick D. O'Rourke, Nashville, Tenn., for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Catherine Walker Underwood, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, BROOM and LEE, JJ.

LEE, Justice, for the Court:

Willie Ragland was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Honorable William F. Coleman, presiding, for armed robbery, and was sentenced to serve twenty years in the Mississippi…