Jasprell Dillard v. State of Mississippi

LEE, C.J.,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Jasprell Dillard, was convicted by a jury in the Bolivar County-Circuit Court, Second Judicial District, of aggravated assault with a firearm and sentenced to serve fifteen years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with an additional, consecutive five-year sentence for the firearm enhancement, and five years’ probation.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶2. On April 12, 2014, a little after midnight, Joshua Hampton was driving slowly down Martin Luther King Drive in Shaw, Mississippi, when he was shot. Hampton was hit in the neck .and grazed on…