Hall v. State

Assault with intent to murder; sentence: eight years imprisonment.

Appellant was charged in a two count indictment with (1) assault with intent to murder David Havard and (2) assault with intent to maim David Havard. The jury found appellant guilty on count one only, and the State nol-prossed count two.

This case arose from a barroom brawl between two off-duty undercover policemen and certain customers of the 1890 Lounge in Dothan, Alabama. Agent David Havard, a Mobile police officer, was on loan to the Dothan Police Department Narcotics Squad as an undercover agent. On the evening of June 3,…