Applegate v. State

301 So.2d 853 (1974)

Charles Douglas APPLEGATE

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 48045.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 14, 1974.

Brooks & Guyton, Kosciusko, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Wayne Snuggs, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

ROBERTSON, Justice:

Appellant, Charles Douglas Applegate, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Attala County of feloniously delivering and transferring marijuana to Roy Wraggs. Although the Court found that appellant was only 20 years of age and a first offender, he sentenced him to a term of six years in the Mississippi…