State v. McDowell

Tayeok, Justice:

The appellant, Rudolph McDowell, was tried and convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill at the 1946 Fall Term of General Sessions Court for Marlboro County. At the conclusion of the State’s case, attorneys for the appellant made a motion for a directed verdict of not guilty which was refused; and the case submitted to the jury who found the appellant guilty as charged. Motion was duly made for a new trial which was refused, and the appellant sentenced to three years at hard labor upon the public works of Marlboro County or a like period in the State Penitentiary,…