Christopher Brian Sheely a/k/a Christopher Sheely a/k/a Christopher B. Sheely v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed Sheely's conviction for possessing more than one-tenth gram but less than two grams of methamphetamine. It held that the evidence supported findings that Sheely knowingly and intentionally possessed methamphetamine weighing 0.157 grams, and that the trial court properly refused a proposed chain-of-custody instruction because Sheely presented no evidence of tampering or substitution. The court applied de novo review to the sufficiency challenge and abuse-of-discretion review to the jury-instruction ruling.