Panola County Miss. – The Mississippi Link

Bullet hits school bus, 1 student in Panola Co.

February 4, 2013 Kermit 0

Panola County authorities said a bullet that struck a Panola County school bus, grazing a student in the back, may have been a hunting accident.

District Attorney John Champion said a 10-year-old male student was transported by helicopter on Jan. 25 to Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis with non-life-threatening injuries.

Champion said the bullet went through a side window of the South Panola bus, which was carrying about 15 students when the incident occurred. Surveillance video onboard the bus captured the incident.
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Sardis woman going to prison for forgery

November 29, 2012 Kermit 2

A Panola County Circuit Jury took less than 15 minutes to convict a Sardis woman of forging a court document, Attorney General Jim Hood said.

Samantha Johnson, 40, a former Secretary for a Batesville law office used her position to compose a fictitious Chancery Court divorce document by forging signatures, including a Deputy Clerk’s and presenting the document to an unsuspecting client as if the document had been approved and filed, when in fact it had not.
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Panola slaying case before Miss. high court

November 16, 2012 Kermit Comments Off

The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a Panola County man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2011 shooting death of a Batesville man.

The court will not hear oral arguments in the case of Derrick Burdette.
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