Legal Opinion
Smallwood v. State
Court of Appeals of Mississippi
Decided May 23, 2006No. 2004-KA-01603-COAPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
930 So.2d 448 (2006)
Lavon Darall (Darrall) SMALLWOOD a/k/a Lavon Darell Smallwood, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.
No. 2004-KA-01603-COA.
Court of Appeals of Mississippi.
May 23, 2006.
Leslie D. Roussell, Laurel, attorney for appellant.
Office of the Attorney General by Scott Stuart, attorney for appellee.
Before MYERS, P.J., SOUTHWICK and BARNES, JJ.
SOUTHWICK, J., for the Court.
¶ 1. Lavon Smallwood was convicted of burglary and acquitted of armed robbery by a Wayne County Circuit Court jury. He seeks reversal here due to the doctrine of merger, a double jeopardy violation, denial of…
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