Jimmy Joe Tutor v. State of Mississippi

BARNES, J., FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Jimmy Joe Tutor was convicted of burglary of a dwelling and sentenced to twenty-five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections as a habitual offender under Mississippi Code Annotated section 99-19-81 (Rev. 2015). Appealing his conviction, Tutor argues that his sentence as a habitual offender was illegal because the underlying offenses to prove his habitual-offender status arose from the same incident and that the verdict was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence. We find no error in the trial court's ruling that his underlying…