LAWRENCE v. STATE

No. 2004-KA-01061-COA.

928 So.2d 894 (2005)

Reta LAWRENCE a/k/a Reta Faye Lawrence, Appellant v. STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross Parker Simons, attorney for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Glenn Watts, attorney for appellee.

Before KING, C.J., IRVING and BARNES, JJ.


IRVING, J., for the Court.

¶ 1. Reta Lawrence was convicted by a George County jury of transfer of a controlled substance. Feeling aggrieved, Lawrence appeals her conviction, arguing: (1) that her trial took place outside the 270-day statutory time limit; (2) that the jury in her case was never placed under oath; and (3) that the State failed to meet its burden of proof in her case because it did not prove that Oxycodone is a Schedule II controlled substance...

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