State v. Jump

Henry, C. J. —

The defendant was indicted at the April term, 1884, of the Polk circuit court, for an assault upon J. W. Martin, with intent to kill. He was tried and convicted at the October term, 1884, and his punishment assessed at a fine of one hundred dollars, and three months imprisonment in the county jail. From that judgment he has appealed to this court.

The evidence is not preserved in the bill of exceptions, but it is only stated therein what it tended to prove. Jump, Mitchell, and Martin were returning home from church, when Jump and Mitchell engaged in a quarrel. Martin interfered…