Freeman v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Colonel L. Freeman, Sr., was convicted of assault with intent to murder and sentenced to four years imprisonment.

The evidence tended to show that on the evening of December 23, 1971, at approximately 8:00 P.M., John Paul Richardson and Virgil Bell were returning to the latter’s camphouse in the Forldand area of Greene County. Richardson stopped his 1972 Datsun pickup truck on the road at a point about two hundred feet below appellant’s camphouse. He got out and fired one shot from a shotgun at a rabbit running across the road. This shot was fired in the opposite direction of…