Grant v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Eddie Grant, an inmate at Lowndes Correctional Institution, was convicted of possession of a deadly weapon while in confinement. He brings this appeal, enumerating two errors. Held:

Our disposition of the first enumeration of error is conclusive of this appeal. The evidence shows that a shakedown inspection of inmate lockers exposed a piece of steel fashioned into a knife in Grant’s locker. The following day Grant was placed before a disciplinary board accused of wrongfully possessing contraband (a knife). He was asked, without benefit of any warning as to potential…