Jenkins v. State

Richard Jenkins, Ben O’Neal, Frank Dukes, William H. Johnson, and James Rufus Williams were jointly indicted for an assault with intent to murder Ralph Bashlor, by shooting him with a shotgun. Jenkins was tried separately and was convicted of the offense charged, his motion for a new trial was overruled, and that judgment is assigned as error. The record shows that Jenkins and Bashlor are white men, that the codefendants are negroes, that James Rufus Williams was the person who shot Bashlor with a shotgun, and that Richard Jenkins was not present at the scene of the assault when Bashlor was…