Tucker v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for assault to murder; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

That appellant stuck an ice pick into the body of Jim Bell, under the shoulder blade of the latter, from tlqe effects of which he was in bed for four or five days, seems not in dispute. Appellant said he did it in self-defense. The jury seem not to have agreed with this claim.

There are four bills of exception. No. 1 is to the refusal to let witness Lee testify what he said to appellant, in the presence of Bell, in regard to a statement of Bell reflecting on county commissioner Wright. The relevance of…