Crowder v. State

The defendant, with his father John A. Crowder, were jointly indicted for maliciously stabbing the prosecutor, John W. Knowles.

John A. Crowder was first tried and acquitted. Afterwards the defendant was tried and convicted, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the peniten*670tiary. His motion for a new trial being refused, he has appealed.

The prosecutor and John A. Crowder owned and occupied adjoining farms, with a pass-way between, which the prosecutor claimed as a private way. Said John A. Crowder proposed to set out bis fence so as to interfere with the road, and he and the defendant…