State v. Campbell

I. The indictment charges defendants with an assault upon one Myers, with the intent to rob him. The evidence shows that Myers, who is a merchant, was assaulted in the night-time by two men, who came into his store and, presenting a pistol, demanded his money. He resisted them, and was, in the struggle, shot three times. He testifies that he seized the pistol held by one of the men, grasping the man’s hand over it, and that the pistol was discharged. It is claimed that the man’s hand was wounded by the pistol. The men were disguised, their faces being blackened.- Myers does not, in his…