Gordon v. State

CATES, Judge.

Honor B. Gordon, indicted October 12, 1956, tried to a jury October 23 and 24, appeals from his conviction of assault with intent to murder, which resulted in the judge sentencing him to two years in prison.

The evidence for the State tended to show that Willie Tucker, who had a farm on the Cloverdale Road some eight miles from Florence, Alabama, was in that neighborhood on the morning of July 16, 1956, and met up with Gordon near a store at which it seems Tucker had been visiting with one Ellis Grisham. Willie’s version went:

“They was out at the hog pen looking at Ellis’ hog. I…