Owens v. State

CATES, Judge.

Owens aggrieved that he was found guilty of an assault upon one Jim Gray, a deputy sheriff, has brought this appeal from the judgment of the court below. Without the intervention of a jury, the trial court found Owens guilty, fined him twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and costs and sentenced him to the county jail for fifteen (15) days.

According to the tendencies of the State’s evidence, which an appellate court accepts as a finding of fact, Owens, on the 21st day of December 1968, was arrested at the 72 Cafe on U. S. Highway 72, west of Bridgeport, Alabama.

Mr. Gray arrested Owens…