Williams v. State

LEE, J.,

for the court.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 1. In February 1997, Barbara Washington Williams and Luie Vigo Santiago were indicted by a Wilkinson County grand jury on charges of sale of a schedule II controlled substance within a church zone and possession of a schedule II controlled substance with intent to deliver within a church zone. Williams filed a motion requesting severance, and the judge severed her case from that of her co-defendant, Santiago. Williams’s first trial in June 1997 ended in a mistrial after statements in appreciation of law enforcement officers were made in open court in…