BOLIN v. State

Ethridge, C.

The four appellants, Prank Bolin, Curtis Bolin, S. D. Bolin, and Tom Woods, were tried and convicted at the October, 1949, term of the circuit court of Chickasaw County of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder W. D. King, a Mississippi State Highway Patrolman. The trial court sentenced the first two appellants to eight years in the state penitentiary, S. D1. Bolin to four years, and Tom Woods to two years in that institution.

The Court has considered carefully all of the evidence in the case and does not believe that a narrative of it would be helpful. The jury was not…