Scott v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from DeKalb Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Wallace Scott was convicted of an assault with intent to murder, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPelham, P. J.
The defendant was indicted and convicted of the offense of an assault with intent to murder and given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary.
The undisputed evidence shows that the defendant and the assaulted party occupied and conducted adjoining farms; that the assaulted party had erected a dam across a ditch on his land (or land rented and occupied by him), which caused water to flow upon the lands of the defendant, and engendered bad feeling* between the parties; that on a certain Sunday in April, 1914, the defendant, accompanied by some of his relatives, went to the place where the…
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