Clark v. State

W. C. Prather and Annie Clark, who are brother and sister, were indicted for assault with intent to murder B. Cowart, in that they assaulted him with wire pliers and a certain knife, a weapon likely to produce death, and in that they did, with those weapons, strike, cut, stab, beat, and wound him with the intent to murder him. The defendants were, by consent, tried jointly. The jury returned a verdict finding Prather guilty of assault and battery, and finding Annie Clark guilty of assault with intent to murder. Her motion for new trial, based on the usual general grounds and four special…