Manley v. State

The defendant was tried and convicted of assault with intent to murder, from which judgment of conviction this appeal is taken. Numerous exceptions reserved during the progress of the trial are conceded to be without merit by counsel for appellant, and are not insisted upon.

[1,2] There is no error in the ruling of •the court on the evidence. The question propounded to witness Davis, the party assaulted, was for the purpose of showing the nature and extent of the wound inflicted upon him by the defendant, and this testimony was admissible for that purpose. Dick Manley, father of the defendant,…