Irons v. State

KING, P. J„

for the Court.

¶ 1. Dana Irons was convicted by the Kemper County Circuit Court of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Irons was sentenced to a term of five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with three years suspended, and five years of supervised probation. Aggrieved, Irons appeals and raises the following issues which we quote verbatim:

I. Whether when the grand jury returns an indictment for an attempt to commit a crime, the court may not allow an amendment of the indictment and the case then be tried upon a charge of having committed the…