Perkins v. State

J. IT. Perkins prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for' the crime of assault with intent to kill.

Briefly stated, the facts are that, in January, 1924, J. TJ. Perkins shot Malvin Hudson three times with a pistol, at the railroad station at Foreman, in Little Biver County, Arkansas. Both parties were engaged in operating service cars, and both solicited the same passengers as they alighted from the train. Hudson secured a passenger which Perkins was trying to get. After Hudson had helped the passenger in his car,' Perkins commenced to shoot at him. The first…