Buggs v. State

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Quitman County on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder, and was sentenced to serve a term of six months in the county jail. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Omphie Lee Nelson, the victim of the assault, testified that he operated a cafe at Vance; that the appellant, whose nickname was £ £ Lightning ’ ’, came into the cafe on the night of 'Saturday, June 23, 1951, and that he asked *285■the appellant to pay him for two quarts of beer, which the appellant had purchased from him a few days…