Starnes v. State

Jesse Starnes was convicted of committing the offense of assault with intent to murder on July 9, 1931, by running an automobile into Nannie Henderson and Thomas Jefferies. The exception here is to the judgment overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial.

There is abundant evidence that some one, while under the influence of an intoxicant, drove an automobile into said persons at a rate of speed exceeding forty-five miles per hour, and in violation of the traffic ordinance of the City of Atlanta, dragging the woman some distance and so injuring her leg that it had to be amputated, and…