State v. Myers

Kenna, President:

V. C. Myers was convicted in the Criminal Court of Harrison County upon an indictment which charged that he “feloniously, maliciously, and unlawfully upon one Floyd Vernon an assault did make, and him the said Floyd Vernon did then and there hit, strike, beat, cut and wound, with a dangerous and deadly weapon, to-wit, a knife, with intent him the said Floyd Vernon to maim, disfigure, disable and kill; * * After motions appropriate to save the points raised by the defendant at his trial had been overruled, he was sentenced to serve four years in the penitentiary and to that…