Wright v. State

Hattie Wright was convicted of assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree, in the Criminal Court of Record of Hillsborough County, on an information charging her with assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree.

It appears from the testimony that Pierce Harwell, an eighteen-year-old white boy, got on a street car and occupied one of the seats set apart for negro passengers. Hattie Wright, a negro woman, came into- the car and sat down along side of him. He told her to move, and upon her refusal he pushed her from the seat; she returned and *832again sat down by him and'…