PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:
The habitual offender sentencing statutes are the basis for a constitutional separation of powers challenge in this criminal appeal from the Circuit Court of Walthall County. Obie D. Washington, appellant, was convicted of rape and sentenced as a recidivist, in a bifurcated hearing, to thirty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He appeals asserting that:
(1) The court erred in overruling the defendant...
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