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RAWLS v. STATE

No. 57195.

513 So.2d 942 (1987)

Morris Cortez RAWLS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merrida P. Coxwell, Jr., Stanfield, Carmody & Coxwell, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by W. Glenn Watts, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.

GRIFFIN, Justice, for the Court:

This case, involving a burglary, comes to the Court from the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, which sentenced Morris Cortez Rawls, upon conviction, to ten years in prison. We reverse.

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