Jenkins v. State

This is an indictment in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, for assault with intent to kill. The traverser was convicted and sentenced to an imprisonment of five years in *74the penitentiary. At the trial he reserved two bills of exceptions to the rulings of the Court upon the admissibility of testimony and these form the basis of this appeal. • In the first bill of exception, it is stated that the traverser after having proved that Smith, the party upon whom the assault was made, was a dangerous man and had been tried and convicted on several occasions of various offenses, asked him on…