Stafford v. State

Judgment affirmed.

The motion for a new trial was on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to law and without evidence to support it. One Cawthon testified: Allen and John Stafford contended that I owed them 40 cents for picking cotton. On the 22d day of September last I was on my way from Sunnyside in my wagon on the road, and in a hollow between two hills John and Allen Stafford were on the roadside. Both of them had rocks in their hands, and they dunned or asked me for the money, drawing back their hands. I started to jump out of my wagon, taking in my hand a wagon-standard about the…