Cabel v. State

This defendant was indicted and tried for assault with intent to murder. She was convicted of assault and battery and duly sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for the term of four months. Prom this judgment of conviction she appeals, and it is here insisted that the court erred in refusing to allow defendant to show on cross-examination of the injured party, Mrs. Lelon Loftin, and by her husband, W. D. Loftin, that a civil action for $10,000 against tbis defendant was pending, wherein Mrs. Loftin (the witness) was plaintiff, and that this civil suit was based upon the same act as…