Greenwood v. State

This was an indictment against the appellant, for an assault %nd battery, upon the body of one Thomas Henderson. The case was tried before a jury upon a plea of not guilty. The facts, as they appeared in evidencej are, that one Thompson Cooper, who bad, at one time, been appointed deputy to James Davidson, sheriff of Poinsett county, but after such appointment, Davidson’s term of office had expired, and he had been re-elected, commissioned and qualified, as sheriff, and Cooper had not been reappointed deputy, but believing himself to be deputy, a writ of capias came to his hands against the…