JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that one of the men convicted in the Kingston Frazier case was not put in jeopardy by being charged with three separate counts.

The Mississippi Supreme Court had to determine whether the State placed Dwan Wakefield in jeopardy by charging him with three violations of the same statute.

Wakefield was convicted of accessory after the fact to murder, accessory after the fact to kidnapping, and accessory after the fact to auto theft. The Mississippi Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions in March 2023.

For the purposes of Mississippi’s accessory after the fact statute, the Mississippi Supreme Court held that each felony committed by a principal offender constitutes a single unit of prosecution, and Wakefield was not put in jeopardy by being charged with three separate counts.

Wakefield was sentenced to 20 years for accessory after the fact to murder, 20 years with five suspended for accessory after the fact to kidnapping, and five years for accessory after the fact to vehicle theft.

Prosecutors said Wakefield witnessed Byron McBride steal the vehicle of Kingston Frazier’s mother outside a Kroger in Jackson on May 18, 2017. Kingston, 6, was inside the vehicle, and an Amber Alert was issued for him.

The car was later found abandoned in Madison County, and Frazier was found shot to death.

Wakefield was the only one out of the three suspects who did not take a plea deal.

McBride was sentenced to life in prison, and D’Allen Washington was sentenced to 15 years in prison for armed robbery and accessory after the fact charges. Washington was released by an order from the Mississippi Parole Board in February 2022.

Washington was recently arrested on drug charges in Rankin County.