Josey v. United States

MILLER, Associate Justice.

Appellant was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon. She testified that she and Virginia Boxley, the complaining witness, had been friends for years; that about four o’clock p. m., on October 31, 1942, she and the complaining witness got into an argument because the latter’s little girl had called her names. About eight o’clock on the same date, the altercation was renewed when Virginia Boxley came running to her place and struck at her; when the Boxley woman hit her again she took a razor blade and “came down across her face”; that Virginia had something in…