Jones v. State

Eugene Jones prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment and sentence of conviction against him for assault with the intent to kill, charged to have been committed .by shooting Winfiéld Edwards with a shotgun.

According to the evidence for the .State, Winfield Edwards was in a houseboat of Miles Edwards on White River, in the Northern District of Arkansas County, Ark., at the time he was shot, in September, 1922. Eugene Jones came to the houseboat in the night time and asked for Goldie Ridgeway. Miles Edwards told Jones that Goldie Ridgeway was in the houseboat. Jones went away, and came back…