State v. Johnson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice John I. Cosgrove.

Appellants, negroes in their ’teens, were indicted and tried in Greenville County court for assault and battery with intent to kill. Convicted of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and each sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, they prosecute this appeal.

The parties concerned are all negroes. Complainants, three in number, named Bennett, charged that, one night in August, 1929, while returning from church with others, they were attacked on the public highway by appellants and severely cut…