SMITH, Justice:
Ernest Ray Butler was convicted in the Circuit Court of Tishomingo County of having intentionally pointed, aimed and fired a 12 gauge shotgun at one Percy Brown, not in necessary self-defense, nor in the discharge of official duty, thereby wounding the said Percy Brown. Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated section 2013 (1956).
For his offense the court imposed a sentence of five years in the penitentiary, suspending half of it during good behavior...
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