DUCKWORTH v. STATE

No. 37472.

209 Miss. 318 (1950)

46 So.2d 787

DUCKWORTH v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, In Banc.

June 12, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.L. Calhoun and D.A. McLeod, for appellant.

R.O. Arrington, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


McGehee, C.J.

Under an indictment for assault and battery with intent to kill and murder Nathan Coleman, a fifteen year old boy, the accused, Johnnie Lee Duckworth, who was nineteen years of age at the time of the alleged felonious assault, was found guilty as charged and sentenced to serve a term of three years in the state penitentiary.

On appeal he assigns as error the refusal of the trial court to peremptorily direct a verdict in his favor...

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