Mack v. State

Bleckley, Justice.

Mack was indicted for the offense of assault with intent to murder, by stabbing and cutting in the back one Stephen McBride, with a knife, the same being a weapon likely to produce death. The evidence showed that a quarrel took place in McBride’s kitchen between McBride and one John Adkins, the prisoner’s father-in-law, in the night, about supper-time. The parties were colored people, and there were some twenty negroes in the kitchen on the occasion, among them the prisoner, and McBride’s mother. None except McBride and Adkin’s took part in the quarrel. Each of these drew…