Lott v. State

This is an appeal by Guy Lott who was convicted on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years.

Briefly stated, the testimony offered by the state shows that Guy Lott was in company with three or four other-boys down in the public road a short distance from the home of John Berry, the party assaulted; that appellant got into a fight with one of the boys, whereupon John Berry, subsequently assaulted, left his house and went down to where the parties were fighting, apparently for the purpose of restoring peace. While in the…