Adams v. State

Dalton W. Adams appeals from a conviction of assault with intent to murder. The sentence was ten years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence tends to show that three Alabama Conservation Officers about daylight watched two men in a boat on the Alabama side of a body of water between Alabama and Mississippi, run a fish net and bring up fish.

Two of the officers, Louis Malone and Eddie Holland, ran their boat across the river to intercept the fishing boat. Their boat was rammed twice by the fishing boat and the fishermen began firing at the officers, three shots striking the conservation…