Wesley v. State

1. This case is here assigning error upon the overruling-of a motion for new trial based upon the conviction of the defendant, under an indictment charging assault with intent to murder, of unlawfully shooting at another. The assignment of error is on the general 'grounds only.

Briefly, but substantially, the jury were authorized to find from the evidence that the defendant and Mose Reeves Jr. had become angered with each other in 1949, brought about by the interference of the defendant with Reeves’ wife. A separation followed. There was one disturbance after another between them from the time…