SEAY v. STATE

No. 38219.

212 Miss. 712 (1951)

55 So.2d 430

SEAY v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division A.

December 3, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ely B. Mitchell, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


McGehee, C.J.

The appellant, Shelton Seay, who is a Negro, was tried and convicted for a felonious assault upon C.L. Pace, Jr., sheriff of Tishomingo County, by shooting at the said officer with a pistol from ambush in the nighttime. The said defendant was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary on the ground that the shooting was done with intent to kill and murder, although the indictment...

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