Jenkins v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CARLSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Coui’t:

¶ 1. Robert Lee Jenkins was convicted in the Circuit Court for the Second Judicial District of Harrison County for possession of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to life imprisonment under the habitual-offender statute. Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-83 (Rev.2007). On appeal, we assigned the case to the Court of Appeals, which affirmed. We granted Jenkins’s petition for writ of certiorari to examine whether the trial court erred by allowing a laboratory supervisor to testify regarding the results of substance testing, where the…