Brandon v. State

RODGERS, Presiding Justice.

The defendant was indicted in this case for assault and battery with intent to kill and murder Joe A. Parker and was convicted in the Circuit Court, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Second Judicial District, April Term, 1971. He was sentenced to serve eight (8) years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. From this sentence and judgment he has appealed to this Court.

The indictment, leaving off the formal parts, is in the following language:

“. . . Upon their oaths present: That ARTHUR BRANDON late of the County aforesaid, on the 26th day of July, 1970, in the County…