Standard v. State

CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lee County adjudging appellant, defendant in that court, guilty of assault with intent to murder and sentencing him to imprisonment for a term of twenty years. The judgment was duly rendered and the sentence imposed by the court after a jury had found defendant guilty of the crime as charged in an indictment, to which he had entered a plea of not guilty.

The evidence leaves considerable doubt as to who was responsible for the melee that erupted early on the night before Christmas eve in 1971 at a certain…