Johnson v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Lee Johnson was convicted on a charge of assault to murder and given a sentence of two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment alleges that appellant, with malice aforethought, made an assau't upon Dick Baggett with intention to murder him.

The appellant and others were in the dancing room of the Oasis Inn, a beer joint and dance hall near Milano, and became involved with George R. Samford and some other person, not identified, who knocked him down three times. He arose with his pistol and fired a shot which went through the wall of the building. George Samford fled from the…