Ashley v. State

The appellant, Rob Ashley, was indicted and convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder one S. B. Norris, and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.

It appears that Bob Ashley and his son, Ernest Ashley, were share croppers on the land of S. B. Norris in Smith county, and tnat1 they had procured from the government aid in making the crop, and1 the government was taking a certain part of the cotton when it was sold and permitting a part thereof to be paid to the owner. The appellant and his son had carried four bales of cotton to the gin and had not paid Norris his…