Musgrove v. State

Musgrove and Lucas were convicted in the Circuit Court of Greene County of violation of Mississippi Code of 1942, Recompiled, Section 5866-02:

“Headlighting—penalty. Any person who hunts or takes or kills any deer by headlighting or by any lighting device, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) or be imprisoned not more than three (3) months in the county jail, or both.”

Appellants had previously been convicted of this offense in a justice of the peace court and appealed for a trial de novo to the circuit court.

On the night of November 13,…