Blount v. State

Blount, tbe appellant, plead guilty in the Circuit Court of Neshoba County, Mississippi, to two separate charges of trespass and one charge of assault and battery. In each case, he was sentenced to pay a fine and serve a term in jail. The jail sentences were suspended during good behavior.

Later, upon due notice to Blount and a full hearing, and upon ample evidence, it was found and adjudicated by said circuit court that Blount, without any justification whatever, using a rifle and a pistol, had shot at one John L. Horn four times, three of the bullets hitting Horn. The trial judge revoked the…