Adams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From tbe City Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Indictment for assault with intent to murder. Conviction of assault and battery. Exceptions to charges given, and to tbe refusal of charges asked. Material facts stated in opinion.
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From tbe City Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. Thos. M. Arrington. Indictment for assault with intent to murder. Conviction of assault and battery. Exceptions to charges given, and to tbe refusal of charges asked. Material facts stated in opinion. Under tbe undisputed facts of this case, by express statutory provision, tbe contract of hire existed between tbe parties, and tbe defendant bad a lien on tbe crops, enforceable by process of attachment. — Code, § 3065. At common law, witbouttbis statute, tbe parties may have been tenants in common of tbe crops, with equal right of…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The appellant was convicted of an assault and battery, under an indictment which charged an assault with intent to murder. In determining whether be *90was in fault in bringing on the difficulty, in which the assault was alleged to have been made, the ownership of certain corn became a material inquiry. The proof was, that this corn was a part of a crop raised by the defendant under a contract between him and one Turnipseed, by the terms of which the latter “furnished the land and teams, the defendant furnished the labor, and the crop was to be equally divided between them.” A part of the corn…
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