Thornton v. State

G-. W. Thornton was convicted of the offense of an assault with intent to murder, and, being recommended to the mercy of the court, was sentenced as for a misdemeanor. The only evidence for the State was the testimony of the prosecutor, who stated that .the defendant, without any provocation whatever, seriously injured him by striking him on the head with a six-pound smoothing iron, a weapon likely to produce death; that the defendant was boarding at the house of the prosecutor, and that he assaulted the prosecutor in a room therein. The defendant introduced no witnesses, and, in his…