State v. Langford

— The defendant was charged hy information in the Circuit Court of Lincoln County with a felonious assault. Upon a trial, he was convicted of a common assault and his punishment fixed at a fine of two hundred dollars. Prom this judgment, he appealed.

The prosecuting witness was a road overseer. In May, 1917, he with two others was grading a public road with a road grader. This road ran hy the house of defendant. When they reached a point on the road opposite his house, he came out, carrying a heavy hoe, and orderd them to stop the work, saying: “Take up that grader blade. I ain’t going to have…