Stotts v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing George Stotts to the- penitentiary for fifteen years for the offense of assault with intent to kill one Grady Harlan.

Harlan testified in substance that he was deputy sheriff of Crittenden County; that on the 7th of March, 1925, he and two others went down on the gravel road to No. 96, where they had received information that Stotts was selling liquor. They went to Stotts’ house and sent a negro in to purchase some liquor. The negro called out that he wanted one, and Stotts brought it out. As he went to hand it to the negro, witness demanded hi's…