Mastin v. State

IRVING, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. After the Circuit Court of Lowndes County affirmed Gregory Mastin’s convictions for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, he appealed, raising five issues, which we restate as follows:

I. Whether the State failed to prove that Mastin’s spoken words constituted disorderly conduct;

II. Whether Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-35-7(1)® (Rev.2014),1 as applied in this case, violates Mastin’s First Amendment right to free speech and is thus overly broad;

III. Whether the State failed to ádvise Mastín of the disorderly-conduct statute that he was being…