Pruitt v. State

Plaintiff in error, Claude Pruitt, was tried and convicted upon an information which in substance charged that in Carter county on or about the 7th day of January, 1917, he did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, and intentionally shoot one Monroe Mahurin with a pistol, said pistol being then and there a deadly weapon, with the unlawful and felonious intent on the part of him the said Claude Pruitt to kill the said Monroe Ma-hurin. Verdict was as follows:

“We, the jury drawn, impaneled, and =worn in the above-entitled cause, do upon, our oaths find the defendant, Claude Pruitt guilty of an…