Cawthon v. State

The defendant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder upon Farris Brewer, the sheriff of Banks County, and his son, Yerner Brewer. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The testimony of the sheriff and his son was to the effect that they, along with Ernest Mason, were riding in the sheriff’s car down the State highway which runs between Baldwin and Homer, Georgia; that Yerner Brewer was driving the car, that the sheriff was sitting on the front seat beside him, and that Mason was sitting on the back seat; that an unidentified Ford automobile passed them and…