Rives v. State

Blandeord, Justice.

[Rives was indicted and tried in the county court of Troup county for stabbing. He was found guilty of an assault, and petitioned for a certiorari, assigning as error that the verdict was contrary to law and evidence; that the court charged that he admitted evidence of previous difficulties and threats, including one a half-hour before *376the stabbing, as circumstances for the jury, to consider to show the animus of the parties, and not in mitigation or justification of the offense charged; and also because he charged that, under an indictment for stabbing, the jury might find…