State v. Waggoner

MABRY, Chief Justice..

Appellant, Dick Waggoner, was charged, and convicted, upon trial to jury of the crime of assault with intent to kill, 1941 Comp., Sec. 41-607, by discharging a pistol at one J. W. Harper, Jr., and he appeals. Appellant had leased a ranch from one Mrs. Cox who thereafter lived with him and his wife on the Cox property. Mrs. Cox had borrowed a water tank from a neighbor, one Sam Swope, her son-in-law, appellant bringing the tank from the Swope ranch and connecting it to the windmill on the Cox property. He used some of his own fittings, of small value, to make the…