Granstaff v. State

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

This was a conviction under an indictment charging assault with intent to kill one Ollie Garrison. There was a sentence of one year in the State prison. Plaintiff in error is a. man of fifty-seven years of age. The difficulty grew out of differences between Garrison and young Tommie Granstaff, the sixteen or seventeen year old son of plaintiff in error. Garrison, who was a man some thirty-two years old, had teased and aggravated the boy on a number of occasions. There is a dispute in the record as to just what words passed between the parties at the time of…