Smithson v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, assault with intent to murder; the punishment, 2 years in the penitentiary.

Harvey Warren, the injured party and a son-in-law of the appellant, testified that in the fall of 1931 he had rented some land and then subrented some of the land to the appellant. The appellant lived in a house with him for a while, but later on the appellant requested the said Warren to divide up the crop, and after a division of the crop the appellant and his two sons moved to the town of Red Oak. About two months before the shooting, the appellant and Warren had had some trouble in…