Fields v. State

Robert Lee Fields was charged, in an indictment in two counts, with assaulting Walter J. Branch and Christine Shanks with intent to murder them by shooting them with a pistol, a weapon likely to produce death. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on both counts and recommended that he be sentenced to serve not more than ten years and not less than ten years on each count. The defendant’s motion for a new-trial, based on the usual general grounds and six special grounds, was overruled and he excepted.

1. In special ground 1 (numbered 4), error is assigned upon the trial court’s refusal to…