BANKS v. DAWKINS

No. 48950.

339 So.2d 566 (1976)

Mack Elmore BANKS v. Merdith Preston DAWKINS, Jr.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stone & Graham, Columbus, Andrew K. Naugle, III, West Point, Rufus Ward, Jr., J. Tyson Graham, Columbus, for appellant.

Joe O. Sams, Jr., Columbus, Irvin Conrad Mord, II, Macon, for appellee.

Before INZER, P.J., and SMITH and BROOM, JJ.


SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

This was an action begun by Mack Elmore Banks against Merdith Preston Dawkins, Jr., in the Circuit Court of Lowndes County and subsequently transferred to the Circuit Court of Noxubee County. Banks sought damages for personal injuries inflicted upon him by Dawkins by shooting him in the head and face with a shotgun. The appeal is from a verdict and judgment for Dawkins.

Banks was the proprietor of a so-called "supper club" at...

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