Ball v. State

Appellant was convicted on a charge of assault with intent to kill, and sentenced to seven years in the State penitentiary. The indictment charged that he committed an assault upon one Everett Hood with a deadly weapon, a gun, with the unlawful and. felonious intent at the time to kill and murder said Hood.

Appellant is a negro and is a member of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union. On the night of January 16, 1936, a number of the members of said union, including appellant, all negroes, met at St. Peter’s Church in Crittenden county, about five miles north of Earle. They had placed a guard at…