Chisholm v. State

The indictment charges that on December 24, 1928, in Carroll county, Boots Chisholm committed an assault with intent to murder, by cutting and stabbing T. A. Land with a pocketknife. The jury found the defendant guilty of unlawfully stabbing another, and the court sentenced him to pay a fine of $100 or serve twelve months in the chain-gang. The exception here is to the judgment overruling. the motion for a new .trial, based on the usual general grounds, and on one special ground complaining of the charge of the court.

T. A. Land, sworn for the State, testified that on the night of December 25,…