Kilgore v. State

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of conviction rendered on the Sd'th day of February, 1912, in which the defendant was found guilty of aggravated assault, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

The evidence shows that the defendant, J. P. Kilgore, and the prosecuting witness, John Bullard, were both tenants of one Dr. Deberry, on land near Shawneetown, in McCurtain county. It appears that during the crop season of 1911, both of these tenants had raised some cane, and Bullard was a manufacturer of a sorghum molasses which he put up in…