Roney v. State

The appellant, Hub Roney, was indicted in the circuit court of the Second judicial district of Jones county on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and murder, and was convicted of assault and battery, and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred dollars and to serve a term of three months in the county jail, and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal.

The indictment as originally drawn charged that the assault and battery was committed with brass knucks, but the proof offered at the trial was to the effect that the weapon or instrument used by the appellant…