A former Vicksburg attorney has pleaded guilty in a drive-by shooting and her license to practice law has been permanently revoked.

Judith Kristie Smith, 39, 132 Pebble Beach Drive, has pleaded guilty to having been an accessory after the fact to a drive-by shooting from a car in which she was a passenger in the Jackson area in May 2005.

Smith was ordered by Judge Samac Richardson of Madison County Circuit Court on Nov. 9 to serve a year on house arrest followed by four years’ probation, a spokesman for the Madison County District Attorney’s Office said. A trial had been set to begin Tuesday.

The driver of the car, Thomas Randy Clark, 35, 109 Hillside Circle, was sentenced in June to three felony charges and was ordered to serve, with suspensions, 18 years in prison followed by five years’ probation. In all, the judge imposed the maximum sentences on Clark’s convictions, 30 years for drive-by shooting and 20 years each for two counts of aggravated assault.

Clark pleaded guilty two months earlier, claiming sole responsibility for the shooting.

Clark told the judge he was driving a Jaguar on May 21, 2005, when he fired his semiautomatic Glock pistol at a Toyota Celica driven by Susan Wiltshire, 24, of Flowood, who was struck by a bullet and hospitalized.

The Toyota was in line for a drive-through window at a Krystal restaurant on East County Line Road when it was bumped by the Jaguar, investigators found. Words were exchanged and Clark drove the Jaguar after the Wiltshire vehicle from the restaurant north on Old Canton Road in southern Madison County, where the shooting occurred.

Clark and Smith originally faced identical grand-jury indictments, but Smith’s case was taken to a separate grand jury after Clark pleaded guilty and said Smith had nothing to do with the shooting.

Smith’s re-indictment was on one charge each of accessory after the fact and conspiracy. The conspiracy charge was dropped in the plea deal.

The license to practice law of any lawyer convicted of a felony is automatically revoked.

Also as part of her plea deal, however, Smith was ordered to tender an irrevocable resignation from The Mississippi Bar.

Convicts sentenced to house arrest are monitored and restricted in their movements but may work and continue with other routine activities outside their homes.

Also in Madison County Circuit Court, Wiltshire has sued Clark and Smith for damages, including &#8220damage to her vehicle, lost wages, hospital and medical bills including three surgeries, permanent pain and suffering and permanent loss of strength to the arm.”

That suit remains pending, and no trial date has been set, Madison County Circuit Clerk’s Office records show.