State v. Germany

StukEs, J.:

The appellants were convicted of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature at the April, 1947, term of the Court of General Sessions for Richland County upon an indictment which charged upon the first count assault and battery with intent to kill and murder, and the second count charged conspiracy. They were acquitted upon the second count.

The appeal is upon exceptions which raise three questions, the last of which is whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant the conviction. There was no direct evidence of the use by the defendants of a weapon; but the circumstances…