HAWKINS v. STATE

No. 58216.

538 So.2d 1204 (1989)

Woodrow Jerry HAWKINS & John Amos v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom T. Ross, Jr., Ross, Hunt, Spell & Ross, Clarksdale, William E. O'Hare, Smith & O'Hare, Cleveland, Thomas J. Lowe, Jr., Jackson, for appellants.

Mike Moore, Atty. Gen. by Harrison S. Ford, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and SULLIVAN and ZUCCARO, JJ.


SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

Woodrow Jerry Hawkins and John Amos, appellants, were indicted by the grand jury of Coahoma County, Mississippi, in June, 1986, on the charge of robbery. On August 19, 1986, in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County, Honorable John L. Pearson Presiding, Hawkins and Amos were found guilty of robbery. Hawkins and Amos were sentenced to serve fifteen (15) years each in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Feeling aggrieved...

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