State v. Male

Woods, Judge:

The’ defendant, Homer Male, was tried in the circuit court of Barbour county on an indictment charging that he “unlawfully, feloniously and maliciously, did shoot, stab and wound with intent, him, the said Melker Male, then and there to maim, disfigure, disable and kill”, etc. He comes here on writ of error, complaining of a judgment of said circuit court, rendered on a verdict of the jury finding him guilty as charged.

The record is a long one, but the pertinent facts may be briefly stated. On the 8th day of November, 1925, the union miners in Barbour county, a strike then…