BRANNING v. STATE

No. 45411.

224 So.2d 579 (1969)

Jack Rush BRANNING v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.S. Scott, Jr., Henry S. Davis, Jr., Laurel, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


ROBERTSON, Justice:

The appellant, Jack Rush Branning, was convicted in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County, Mississippi, of the possession of narcotics contrary to the provisions of the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act of 1962, which is Sections 6844-6866 Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated (Supp. 1968). This being a third offense, as defined in Section 6866, the court sentenced him to pay a fine of $2,000 and to serve twenty years in the state...

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