Hyde v. State

The defendant, Leonard Hyde, was charged in two counts with an assault with intent to murder. One count charged an assault with intent to murder his wife; the other, an assault with intent to murder one Hall Rooke. He was found guilty. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

1. In special ground 1 the defendant contended “that the court erred in failing and refusing to allow [his] counsel to cross-examine Mrs. Leonard Hyde, one of the alleged victims and one of the alleged prosecutors, who was alleged to have been shot by her husband, Hyde, the movant, and particularly the…