Langley v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of an assault with intent to murder and a sentence to imprisonment for ten years.

The victim was Freddie Bates, twenty-two years of age. The relationship between defendant and the victim and the circumstances surrounding the alleged crime are fraught with then existing or previous illicit relations with women, which gave rise to quarrels and violence among all concerned.

According to the undisputed and unquestioned evidence, Bates, while sitting in an automobile, was shot in the middle of an arm by a shotgun in the hands…