Rutledge v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for assault to rob; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The evidence is circumstantial. Hughes, the injured party, while, the ear of the assailants was traced to a point near which the dead some persons who were apparently working on an automobile on the side of the road, was attacked by them. They wore masks, exhibited firearms and commanded Hughes to stop. He Bed in his car and fired upon one of them, who fell in his tracks. Later in the night, riding in his automobile in the night-time and in the act of…