Early v. State

The defendant was convicted of an assault with intent to murder. The evidence for the State showed that he saw one Henry Slater in apparently earnest conversation with a married woman known as Ethel Davis, who sailed under a name different from her husband’s and with whom the defendant’s relations appear to have been altogether too friendly, and, prompted by the “green-eyed monster” of jealousy and -seemingly enraged by the failure of Slater to regard a warning which he had given some time before, that he would kill Slater if he ever caught him at his “girl’s” house again, he assaulted Slater…