Buchanan v. State

The facts in this case are materially different from those in Buzel Gray v. State, 427 So.2d 1363, 1983, not yet reported, *700which construed Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-3-7 (1972). The record in Gray indicated that he did not know the people with whom he was involved in the accident on that rainy afternoon, and had no reason to harm them in any manner. In the case sub judice, Buchanan and the injured man, Parker, had been drinking and had engaged in a fight immediately prior to the accident. The fight subsided, whereupon Parker got on his motor bike and was driving down a public road…