for the Court.
¶ 1. Dewayne Price was convicted of grand larceny by an Attala County jury. Thereafter, the Attala County Circuit Court sentenced him as a habitual offender to ten years in the custody of the Mississippi Deрartment of Corrections. Feeling aggrieved, Price appeals and asserts that there is insufficient evidence to support the verdict and that the verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence.
¶ 2. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the judgment of the circuit court.
FACTS
¶ 3. On August 8, 2007, Price, Cordarron Buchannon, and David Holmes
¶ 4. During trial, the State called several witnessеs to testify about the events surrounding the theft of the four-wheelers. Kuhn testified that the night the four-wheelers were stolen, they were stored on his father-in-law’s property in Attala County. According to Kuhn, the perpetrators cut the property fence in two places in order to get to the four-wheelers.
¶ 5. Buchannon testified that on the day of the theft, Holmes called him and told him where some fоur-wheelers were located. Buchannon stated that later that day, Holmes took him to the exact location. Buchannon further stated that around 11 p.m., he, Holmes, and Price used Buchan-nоn’s truck to go to Attala County and steal the four-wheelers. According to Bu-channon, once they got to the property where the four-wheelers were located, they had to cut through thе property fence to get to the four-wheelers. Buchannon testified that Price helped push the four-wheelers to the truck and that Price helped load the four-wheelers onto the truck. Buchannon stated that they took one four-wheeler to his house and the other one to Price’s house.
¶ 6. Randy Blakely, an investigator with the Attala County Sheriffs Department, testified that the Deрartment had received reports of four-wheelers being taken illegally from Attala County to Holmes County. Deputy Blakely further testified that he learned a four-wheeler was located at Price’s house in Holmes County. According to Deputy Blakely, when he arrived at Price’s house, he saw a green four-wheeler in a wooded area about thirty to forty yards across the street from thе house. Deputy Blakely further stated that he noticed that the ignition was missing from the four-wheeler. Deputy Blakely testified that he ran the vehicle identification number on the four-wheeler, which revealed that the four-wheeler belonged to Kuhn.
¶ 7. Holmes testified that he, Buchan-non, and Price went to Attala County and stole two four-wheelers. Holmes stated that Price stayed in the truck and did not help load the four-wheelers onto Buchan-non’s truck. Holmes further stated that he kept the red four-wheeler and that he did not know what happened to the green four-wheeler.
¶ 8. Curtis Price, Price’s brothеr, testified that he saw Price riding a green four-wheeler around the time of the theft. However, Curtis stated that he believed that the four-wheeler belonged to his cousin’s boyfriend. Eric Price, who is also Price’s brother, stated that in July 2007, he saw Price and his cousin’s boyfriend riding two four-wheelers, one was blue. However, Eric was impeached with a statement that he had given earlier to police in which he said that Price, Buchan-non, and Holmes came to his house with three four-wheelers and that the green four-wheeler was left at the house. Faced with his prior statement, Eric admitted making the statеment but explained that he thought at that time the green four-wheeler was one of the ones that was stolen but later discovered that it belonged to his cousin’s boyfriend.
¶ 9. At this juncture in the trial, the State rested. Price made a motion for a directed verdict, but the circuit court denied the motion. During his case-in-chief, Price called his girlfriend, Cassie Wright. Wright testified that she and Price were on their home tеlephones talking to each other from six o’clock in the evening on the
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUES
1. Sufficiency of the Evidence
¶ 10. Our supreme court has discussed the various means by which a criminal defendant can challenge the sufficiency of the evidence against him:
A criminal defendant has several procedural vehicles available to him for challenging the sufficiency of the case for the prosecution-the motion for directed verdict made at the end of thе case for the prosecution, the request for a peremptory instruction at the end of all the evidence or the motion for a directed verdict at that point, or finally a motiоn for judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the verdict.
Hodges v. State,
¶ 11. In his first assignment of error, Price argues that the circuit court erred in denying his motion for a direсted verdict made at the conclusion of the State’s case and that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was involved in taking any property from the viсtim on July 13, 2007. He asserts that the only evidence that led to his conviction was the testimony of his alleged accomplice, Buchannon. Price correctly notes that the testimony of an aсcomplice is to be viewed with “great caution and suspicion.” Walton v. State,
¶ 12. In response, the State argues that Price waived his motion for a directed verdict made at the close of the Stаte’s case when Price introduced evidence on his own behalf. Specifically, the State argues that because Price did not renew his motion for a directed verdict at the close of all evidence, he is procedurally barred from challenging the sufficiency of the State’s evidence.
¶ 13. Generally, “[i]f a defendant puts on evidence in his own defense after the deniаl of his motion for directed verdict, he waives his challenge to the sufficiency of the State’s evidence up to that point.” Robinson v. State,
2. Weight of the Evidence
¶ 14. The standard of review for claims that a conviction is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence is stated as follows:
[An appellate court] must accept as true the evidence which supports the verdict and will reverse only when convinced that the circuit court has abusеd its discretion in failing to grant a new trial. A new trial will not be ordered unless the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction unconscionable injustice.
Valmain v. State,
¶ 15. Price asserts that the verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence because the only incriminating evidence presented by the State-Buchan-non’s testimony-was uncorroborаted and inconsistent. We disagree.
¶ 16. First, we find that Buchannon’s testimony regarding the events surrounding the theft of the four-wheelers was corroborated by several witnesses during the trial. Like Buchannon, Kuhn testified that the fence surrounding the Attala County property where the four-wheelers were stored was cut. Deputy Blakely’s testimony that he found a four-wheeler thirty to forty yards from Price’s house corroborated Buchannon’s testimony that one of the four-wheelers was left there. Buchannon and Holmes stated that Price went with them to the Attala County property where the four-wheelers were loсated. Further, Eric and Curtis stated that they saw Price riding a green four-wheeler after the theft had occurred.
¶ 17. Second, “[i]t is a well-settled principle of law that issues of weight and credibility of [a] witnessеs] testimony are within the sole province of the jury as fact-finder.” King v. State,
¶ 18. Here, the jury heard all of the witnesses’ versions of events surrounding the theft of the four-wheelers. Buchan-non’s testimony, along with the testimony of the other State’s witnesses, provides ample evidence to support Price’s conviction. Therefore, this issue is without merit.
¶ 19. THE JUDGMENT OF THE AT-TALA COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT OF CONVICTION OF GRAND LARCENY AND SENTENCE AS A HABITUAL OFFENDER OF TEN YEARS IN THE CUSTODY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS AFFIRMED. ALL COSTS OF THIS APPEAL ARE ASSESSED TO ATTALA COUNTY.
Notes
. It appears from the record that Buchannon is Price's friend, while Holmes is Price’s cousin.