Mahaley v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

In the lower court this appellant’s jury trial resulted in a verdict of guilty of assault with intent to murder, and judgment was entered accordingly.

The appellant entered pleas of not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity.

The evidence is undisputed that appellant shot the victim of this assault, she being his wife, as she was retreating from him, on a public street in Athens, Alabama. Appellant fired four shots at his wife with a *90pistol. One shot struck her in the back and she fell into a ditch. Appellant shot her again as she lay in the ditch, this bullet, striking her…