Davis v. State

CARLSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Steadman Davis was convicted by a jury of motor-vehicle theft 1 and felony possession of a firearm 2 in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County. Davis was sentenced to consecutive sentences of five years for the motor-vehicle-theft conviction and three years for the firearm-possession conviction. In today’s appeal, Davis asserts that he was denied crucial jury instructions and that the convictions should be reversed based on the lack of evidence supporting the jury verdicts of guilty. Finding error as to the…