Cheatham v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of assault to murder, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The following is the evidence as gleaned from the record before us: The trouble between the appellant and Will Heard, out of which this prosecution grew, occurred on Sunday, the 12th day of May, A. D. 1907. The parties involved are all negroes, Will Heard having married a half sister of appellant. On the. day of the difficulty the parties had been to church, and Heard and his wife dined at appellant’s. There had never been the least trouble between appellant and…