Clarence Wydell Hynes v. State of Mississippi

JAMES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. After a jury trial, Clarence Wydell Hynes was convicted of possession of at least .1 gram but less than 2 grams of methamphetamine. Because of a prior conviction of possession of methamphetamine, Hynes was sentenced as a second offender to ten years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Hynes filed a motion for a new trial, and the trial court denied the motion. Hynes raises the following issues: (1) whether the trial court erred in admitting into evidence the search of Hynes’s person, and (2) whether the trial court erred in admitting…