Emerson v. State

Plaintiff in error, John R. Emerson, was convicted of assault with intent to kill and his punishment fixed at eight years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He has appealed from the judgment rendered upon such conviction.

The information in substance charges that in Logan county, on the 19th day of January, 1919, the defendant, John R. Emerson, did assault and shoot at one H. M. Har-demon with the felonious intent to kill said Hardemon.

The evidence shows that the defendant Emerson, a colored man, conducted a store at the town of Iconium; the complaining witness Hardemon lived nearby? that the…