Thompson v. State

PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of assault with intent to murder and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years.

The evidence for the State tended to show that about 7:30 on a Saturday night in February, 1953, Ernest Bayne, the assaulted party, with his wife and children, went to Eulas Dooley’s barber shop at Snead, Alabama, to get Dooley to go to the movies with them.

While there, appellant and Alfred Lett came to the shop. Lett requested a hair tonic but was told by the proprietor the shop was closed. A quarrel ensued and Lett went outside followed…