Murray v. State

Jim Johnson, Justice.

This appeal questions sufficiency of the evidence in a conviction for assault with intent to kill.

Appellant Glen Dale Murray was charged by information in Sevier Circuit Court with the crime of assault with intent to kill Chief of Police Elbert “Cotton” Hughes on November 28, 1964. The statement of facts is adopted from the testimony of appellant’s witnesses. Appellant had been involved in a family ruckus in Little River County on November 28, 1964. After he returned to Sevier County that day, he planned to go hunting and had two rifles in his car. Leaving a gas station…