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SPEARMAN v. STATE

No. 2010-KA-00281-COA.

80 So.3d 116 (2011)

Keith SPEARMAN, Appellant v. STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 2011.

Certiorari Denied February 16, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hunter Nolan Aikens , attorney for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Laura Hogan Tedder , attorney for appellee.

Before IRVING, P.J., BARNES and MAXWELL, JJ.

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Keith Spearman challenges his auto-theft conviction claiming his indictment was fatally defective for failing to charge two essential elements of the crime. Although Spearman's indictment did not track the language of the current version of the auto-theft statute, we find it contained the essential elements of the offense. We also find the jury's guilty verdict is not against the overwhelming weight of the evidence. Therefore...

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