Bowie v. State

KING, C.J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. John Bowie was convicted of burglary in the Circuit Court of Harrison County. Bowie was sentenced as an habitual offender to a term of seven years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections without the possibility of parole. Aggrieved by his conviction and sentence, Bowie raises the following issues as error, which we quote verbatim:

I. The trial court committed error when it denied the appellant’s motion for directed verdict as the State failed to prove an essential element of the indicted charge.

II. The trial court committed error when it denied…