Skinner v. State

CARLTON, J„

for the Court:

¶ 1. A jury before the Rankin County Circuit Court convicted James Christopher Skinner of disorderly conduct, and the court sentenced him to six months in the Rankin County Jail. Skinner also was convicted of felony evasion and sentenced as a habitual offender to life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) without eligibility for parole or probation.

¶ 2. Skinner now appeals, raising the following assignments of error: whether (1) the circuit court erred in using his 1994 felony convictions in Florida to qualify him as a violent habitual…