Curry v. State

The plaintiff in error, Louis Curry, a negro man about thirty-five years of age, has appealed from a judgment rendered upon a conviction for an assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree. The jury fixed the maximum punishment of the plaintiff in error at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of twenty-one years.

It is assigned as error that there is no evidence to support the verdict, and that the preponderance of the evidence is against the verdict.

It is contended that the evidence does not show an assanlt with intent to commit mnrder in the first degree by any one, and…