Wiggins v. State

The indictment in this ease charged George Wiggins with the offense of assault with intent to murder by shooting John Mixon with a shotgun. The jury found the defendant guilty of unlawfully shooting at another. The exception is to the overruling of the defendant’s motion for a new trial, containing the general grounds and a single special ground complaining that the court failed to charge the law of circumstantial evidence. Harry Pryor testified positively: “George [Wiggins, tbe defendant] shot him [John Mixon, the prosecutor] in the back. He shot him with a shotgun, twelve-guage shotgun.…