Ivy v. State

The appellant was arrested by, and tried by, a jus-, tice of the peace, acting as a conservator of the peace, on a charge .of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder. The affidavit charged the offense to have, been committed in district No. 1 of Union county, Miss. On the hearing before the justice, as conservator of the peace, the defendant was found not guilty of the felony, but the court further found that the defendant was guilty of a simple assault and battery and imposed a fine and delivered a sentence upon the defendant, from which appellant appealed to the circuit court.…