May v. State

By this writ of error there is brought to this court for review a judgment of conviction upon an information charging assault with intent to murder. Reliance for reversal of the judgment rests first upon assignments which raise the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

There is conflict in the evidence of the person alleged to have been assaulted and of the defendant as to what occurred in the encounter between them, but, on behalf of the State, there is evidence of an assault made by the defendant, accompanied by threats to kill the person assaulted, ample to…