Sproles v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of assault and battery with intent to ldll.

The appellant’s defense is that she acted in self-defense, the person (a woman) she is said to have assaulted having attacked her, and was beating her over the head with a hammer, inflicting on her several severe wounds, which she said she exhibited to a physician who treated her therefor. Over the objection of the appellant, this physician was introduced by the state; and, in answer to the question, “I want to ask you if you have ever been called, or have treated this woman here for any sort of a head wound of any…