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DAVIS v. STATE

No. 97-KA-00458-SCT.

724 So.2d 342 (1998)

Melissa DAVIS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 10, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M.A. Bass, Jr., Hazlehurst, Attorney for Appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Scott Stuart, Attorney for Appellee.

Before PRATHER, C.J., BANKS and WALLER, JJ.

WALLER, Justice, for the Court:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1. Melissa Davis was indicted for the sale of two rocks of crack cocaine within 1,500 feet of a church on March 7, 1997. Davis went to trial before a jury in Copiah County Circuit Court on March 25, 1997. On that day she was found guilty and sentenced to sixty years in prison. Davis's motion for a JNOV or in the alternative for a new trial was denied on...

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