Rambo v. State

The defendant James C. Rambo was tried in the Criminal Court of Johnson County, Tennessee, on March 2, 1970 upon an indictment charging him with assault with an automobile with intent to commit murder in the first degree upon Millard Tester on the 21st day of May, 1969. The jury found the defendant guilty of assault and battery upon which the trial judge Honorable David Torbett imposed a fine of $50.00 and a jail sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days.

The defendant filed a motion for a new trial which was heard and overruled, and an appeal was perfected and errors assigned.

The facts…