Clayton v. State

582 So.2d 1019 (1991)

Bessie Marie CLAYTON

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 90-KA-0254.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 12, 1991.

David L. Minyard, Omar D. Craig, Oxford, for appellant.

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:

I

This prosecution is a garden-variety single that the State seeks to stretch into a triple. It seems certain the State has secured an affirmable conviction that Bessie Marie Clayton sold a certain quantity of cocaine to Essau Shaw on December 12, 1988,…