FORD v. STATE

No. 45210.

218 So.2d 731 (1969)

Billy Ray FORD v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied February 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Gee, Vicksburg, J.W. Kellum, Sumner, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


PATTERSON, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County wherein Billy Ray Ford was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary.

The appellant was indicted under the provisions of Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated section 2017 (1956), which provides in part as follows:

Every person who shall design and endeavor to commit an offense, and shall do any overt act toward the commission thereof,...

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