State v. Porter

Ness, Justice:

Appellant was convicted of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature on an indictment for assault and battery with intent to kill. Finding no error, we affirm.

Appellant, a North Carolina resident, owns land in Lancaster County, South Carolina, where he raises pigs. On September 20, 1975, he drove to Lancaster County investigating a report that two of his pigs had escaped from their pen and in the course of his search he entered the property of Harry Slagle. Slagle and his guests, including James Moore and Emmitt Williams, who were all strangers to appellant, disavowed…