Taylor v. State

Townsend, Judge.

1. The evidence in this case, on an indictment of the defendant for the offense of assault with intent to murder, demands a finding that the defendant stabbed the prosecutor with a knife, the size of which is not shown but which, in the opinion of a medical witness, was not, in the manner in which it was used, a weapon likely to produce death. The defendant inflicted from four to seven wounds on various parts of the victim’s body from the head to the thigh. The evidence is conflicting as to what immediately preceded the stabbing. From some witnesses it appears that the…