Bone v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Mississippi, wherein the appellant, Luther Calvert Bone, was convicted on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder, and by the court sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary.

On the morning of February 15, 1948, at about 2:30 A.M. while Policemen Brister and Watts of the Brook-haven police force were making their round in Blister’s private car containing no designation as a police car and while said officers were dressed in blue serge suits and wearing police caps, they…