Jutson and Winters v. State

Minor W. Millwee, Justice.

Appellants, Eddie Jut-son and Oma Winters, were charged by information in the circuit court with the crime of assault with intent to kill, alleged to have been committed upon Halton Rust. On the trial of the case before a jury appellants were convicted of an aggravated assault and their punishment fixed at a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment in the county jail for one year.

Appellant, Oma Winters, is the wife of Charlie Winters, who operates a tire shop in the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The parties had been separated for some time prior to the transactions involved…