Cobb v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction for assault and battery with intent to kill and murder, wherein the maximum penalty of ten years in the State penitentiary was imposed. The appellant defended on the ground of self-defense. He contends on this appeal that the proof is not only insufficient to establish his guilt, but on the contrary, establishes his claim of self-defense, and that, therefore, the trial court was in error in refusing his request for a peremptory instruction.

We need not detail the evidence. We have carefully and assiduously examined the record, and while we are always…