Conoly v. State

The accused was convicted of assault and battery. The State’s main witness described the occurrence thus: “We was there in the house where I was ironing, and we were all talking and going on, and Floyd came there, and was playing; he had some whisky, and told them that if they would take it away from him they could have it. Some one took it away from him and ran away, and he ran after them, and he picked up the sugar dish and throwed it and hit me accidentally. He was not mad with me, and I had been living with him and his wife for a long time, and he had never mistreated me, and I was not…