Brown v. State

The appellant cut Harvey Hilton with a pocket-knife and was convicted of an attempt to kill and murder him. According to the evidence for the State, the appellant assaulted and cut Hilton when Hilton was unarmed and had done nothing whatever to provoke the assault. According to the evidence for the appellant, Hilton assaulted him and attempted to cut him when he had done nothing whatever to provoke the assault, and that in cutting’ Hilton he acted solely in self-defense. There was no evidence or inference therefrom that the appellant had armed himself with the knife for the purpose of…