State v. Shackelford

Baker, Chief Justice.

At the September, 1950, term of the Court of General Sessions for Williamsburg County, the appellant, Eddie Shackelford, was tried and convicted on an indictment charging him with an assault with intent to kill “with a loaded shotgun.”

At the conclusion of the testimony, counsel representing the appellant moved for a direction of verdict (of not guilty) upon the ground “that the indictment, charges an assault, and that the evidence is not sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that there was any assault committed on the alleged victim. There is no corpus…