People v. Watson

The defendant has been found guilty of an assault with intent to commit murder. He now claims that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict.

There is evidence in the record which tends to show that the defendant Watson, when somewhat under the influence of liquor, seized a boy about fifteen years of age, tied him by the neck to his (Watson’s) horse’s tail, using the hair of the horse’s tail for that purpose, then mounted his horse, and, with his pistol in his hand and threats to kill issuing from his mouth, rode about one-quarter of a mile, leading the boy. This journey was also…