Evans v. State

Mandy Mae Evans was convicted of assault with intent to murder. She filed a motion for new trial which was overruled and she excepted. The general grounds are abandoned. Error is assigned on six special grounds.

1. In the first special ground the defendant contends that "the court erred in failing to charge the jury the law of simple assault.” The court charged the law of assault with intent to murder and the law of shooting at another. There was no evidence to warrant the giving in charge of the law of assault. "The Court need give in charge to the jury only that portion of the law of…