PIERCE, Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. This case comes before the Court on appeal from the Lowndes County Circuit Court. The jury convicted James Earl Boyd of aggravated assault pursuant to Mississippi Code Section 97-3-7, and the trial court sentenced Boyd to a term of twenty years. Boyd filed this timely appeal, and argues that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury that, in an aggravated-assault prosecution it must find that the instrument used...
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