Jones v. State

The plaintiff in error, Joe Jones, herein referred to as defendant, was convicted at the District Court of Okmulgee county during the June, 1913, term thereof, on a charge of assault with intent to kill, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for one year and one day.

It appears that defendant and the assaulted party, L. J. Pounds, were farmers living in the neighborhood of the Salt Creek school house in Okmulgee county. The assaulted party was the constable of that township. On the 22nd day of December, 1911, in the evening óf that,day, certain Christmas exercises…