MacOn v. State

295 So.2d 742 (1974)

Robert Lewis MACON

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 47932.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 4, 1974.

Ben F. Hilbun, Jr., Starkville, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Wayne Snuggs, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

GILLESPIE, Chief Justice:

Robert Lewis Macon was convicted in the Circuit Court of Webster County of the crime of assault upon the sheriff with a deadly weapon in resisting arrest. From a judgment sentencing him to a seven-year term in the penitentiary, Macon appealed to this Court.

Sheriff W.E. Middleton of Webster County had a warrant issued in Calhoun…