State v. Crosby

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

The defendant, Ashley Crosby, was tried at the January, 1930, term of Court of General Sessions for Colleton County before his Honor, Judge J. K. Henry, and a jury, under an indictment charging him with assault and battery upon M. B. Kiser, with a shotgun, with intent to kill and murder the said M. B. Kiser, on the 12th day of December, 1929. Upon a verdict of guilty the defendant was sentenced to serve a term of 10 years at hard labor upon the public works of Colleton County or a like term in the State Penitentiary. From the…