Watson v. State

James Donald Watson was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of DeSoto County for conspiracy under Mississippi Code Annotated § 97-1-1(d) (Supp. 1985). The lower court, Honorable George C. Carlson, Jr., presiding, sentenced Watson to serve five (5) years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, and to pay restitution in the amount of forty-nine thousand eight hundred forty dollars ($49,840), together with a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000). He has appealed to this Court and assigns eight (8) errors in the trial below.

Facts

For some time prior to 1983,…