Harvell v. State

BUFORD, J.:

The appellant was informed against under information charging assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree. He was convicted of assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree.

The record shows that the appellant assaulted one Clarence Johnson, on a street in Pensacola, Florida, without any provocation whatever; that he first grabbed Johnson, about the neck and struck him a blow on the nose. He then, with a knife of some sort, slashed Johnson across the back, inflicting a wound which, is not described in the record except by the statement that it required seven…