Hall v. State

The defendant, appellant, was convicted of assault with intent to murder.

The state’s evidence tended to show that the defendant went to the home of his brother, Emmet Hall, and provoked .a difficulty with him; that Ina Hall, Emmet’s wife, was there, and begged defendant to stop heating Emmet and leave; that after “finishing” with Emmet, défendant turned upon Ina Hall, cursed her, threatened to kill her, struck her on the head several blows with a hoe handle and with a kingbolt of a wagon, knocked her down, and beat and bruised her badly. Defendant contended' that he did not strike Ina Hall,…