State v. McGehee

The defendant was tried before a jury in Stoddard County, September 15, 1923, for assault with intent to kill, under Section 3262, Revised Statutes 1919. He was found guilty of the offense defined in Section 3264, Revised Statutes 1919, and appealed.

He was charged with shooting one William H. Harris, night marshal and watchman of the city of Dexter, on whose evidence largely the case was made out. Harris testified that on the night of September 13, 1921, he heard laughing and talking in the public school-house grounds in Dexter, went in and found one Booyer and Mary'Stubblefield, whose name…