Andrew Acie Adams v. State of Mississippi

FAIR, P.J.,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Andrew Aeie Adams was spotted driving in Gulfport while there was a warrant out for his arrest. After pulling Adams over, the officers noticed a loaded magazine in the driver’s side door. Adams’s wife, who was in- the .passenger’s seat, was found to have-been sitting on a pistol, and a search of the vehicle’s trunk revealed a ,22-caliber rifle. Adams confessed to owning the rifle, but he claimed to know nothing of the pistol.

¶ 2, Adams was tried on two counts of possession of a weapon by a- convicted felon. After the State presented its case, the trial court…