Grace v. State

375 So.2d 419 (1979)

Dewey GRACE

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 51496.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 3, 1979.

Wilbourn & Rogers, Richard E. Wilbourn, Don O. Rogers, Meridian, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Catherine Walker Underwood, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before SMITH, LEE and BOWLING, JJ.

SMITH, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Dewey Grace was charged by indictment with aggravated assault upon Harold Clark, a police officer. He was tried on that charge in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County, convicted, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment.

On appeal…