Coffer v. State

On a charge of assault with intent to kill, appellant, I. W. Coffer, was tried, found guilty and punishment of three years in the State Penitentiary assessed by the jury. From the judgment on the verdict comes this appeal.

Eight alleged errors were assigned in the motion for a new trial. The first seven, in effect, challenged the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, and in the eighth assignment appellant alleged: ‘ ‘ The Court erred in his oral instructions to the jury over the objections of the defendant.”

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The evidence was to the following effect:

Mrs. Harold Boggie testified…