State v. Bodie

Rishburne, Justice.

The appellant, Olin Bodie, was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill Billy Abbott with a knife. His punishment was fixed at three years in the state penitentiary.

On November 29, 1947, the appellant, his brother, Leslie Bodie, and a friend, Paul Kessler, began a night’s entertainment in the city of Columbia. At 6 o’clock in the evening, they got into an automobile and drove around the city and its environs, stopping from time to time at night clubs and road houses, where they danced and drank liquor and beer. This continued until about 11 o’clock, when they…