State v. Hinson

Bussey, Justice.

The defendant-appellant, under an indictment charging him with assault and battery with intent to kill and murder one Audrey Bodiford, was convicted by a jury at the September 1968 term of the Court of General Sessions for York County of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and appeals from his conviction and resulting sentence. At the outset, we think it important to a discussion of several questions raised on the appeal to first note a prime distinction between assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and assault and battery with intent to kill.…