State v. Moultrie

COMPTON, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of Dona Ana County of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to serve a term in the penitentiary. From the judgment and sentence he appeals. The insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury and refusal of the court to withdraw from the consideration of the jury references to unrelated crimes and offenses to which objections had been sustained, are the asserted grounds for the appeal.

The incident grew out of an altercation between appellant and the prosecuting witness Adams at the Fuller Saloon in Vado,…