Body v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

Assault with intent to murder; fifteen years.

This is an indigent appeal from a conviction charging the appellant with assault with intent to murder Charles Holland.

The charges grew out of a shooting, which occurred at the Chicken Shack, a local night spot in Bessemer, Alabama. At the time of the shooting, the Chicken Shack was owned and operated by Enoch Oliver and his wife, Brenda.

Oliver testified that he knew Lorenzo Body and Charles Holland and that they were both in the Chicken Shack on September 6, 1974, about 6:00 P.M. Holland’s brothers, Roosevelt and Lewis Duncan were…