James v. State

The indictment in this case charges that the accused “ with a certain knife, the same being a weapon likely to produce death,” did make an assault upon T. E. Whaley, and did cut and stab him with intent to kill him.

I. Complaint is made that the court erred in allowing Tom Jackson to testify as follows: “ I turned as defendant ran by me, and he cut me; he cut me in the back of the arm; he cut me directly after he cut Mr. Whaley; he ran by me and cut me as he ran by,” the defendant objecting to the testimony on the ground that “ what the defendant did to some one else was irrelevant and…