A Bay Springs man that has been scheduled to stand trial in early February 2020 as an accused repeat offender has taken on a new attorney.
On December 19 Marvin Holliday was released from the Jasper County jail on a $1 million bond. Circuit Court Judge Stanley Sorey set the $1 million appearance bond on Holliday December 16.
Holliday appeared in Covington County Circuit Court Friday where it was revealed he was taking on new legal counsel, instead of using a public defender.
“Holliday has hired a new attorney from Jackson,” District Attorney Matt Sullivan explained Monday. “He is to be back in court in Raleigh (Smith County Circuit Court) in the next few days for another pre-trial hearing.”
Holliday’s bond was posted by State Wide Bail Bonding Company out of Columbia, Miss.
According to court documents, Holliday is charged with two counts of conspiring to transfer a Schedule II controlled substance (methamphetamine) of more than two grams in March 2019. He is also charged as being a second or “subsequent” offender, after having previously been convicted in Jasper County Circuit Court for the sale of cocaine in February 2013. In addition he was also convicted in 2001 in Jasper County of felony crimes, kidnapping and simple robbery, as well as a conviction of felony cocaine sales within 1,500 feet of a church in February 2013, in which he was sentenced to 25 years to serve under the direction and supervision of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
If convicted of the current charged crimes, Holliday faces life in prison.