Boyd v. State

BRIDGES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Following indictments by the grand jury, Cassell Boyd, Jr. pled guilty to charges of two sales of cocaine and one possession of cocaine before the Circuit Court of Leake County, Mississippi, the Honorable Marcus Gordon presiding. After hearing Boyd’s guilty plea and discussing with Boyd the consequences of such guilty plea, Judge Gordon accepted Boyd’s plea as voluntary, knowing and intelligent. Boyd was thereafter sentenced to six years in prison for each of the two sales of cocaine, to be served concurrently, and two years in prison for the possession of…