Sanders v. State

Clifford Sanders, referred to herein as the defendant, was convicted for an assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree, and the jury fixed his maximum punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

The defendant has appealed to this court and has assigned numerous errors, his principal insistence being that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction.

The defendant, with his wife, her two sisters, and their husbands, Leslie Marshall and Albert Powell, resided in a four-room cottage which set back some two hundred feet from Hamilton road in Davidson…