Beavers v. State

The appellant was convicted of an assault with intent to kill John Pridmore, and appealed to this court.

The evidence in the case tended to show that the appellant had, some time prior to the alleged assault, seduced and debauched his sister-in-law, Mattie Pridmore, the sister of John Pridmore, and that on that account bad blood and ill feeling had existed between the said John Pridmore and the defendant.

For the purpose of this opinion it is not important to state here the evidence in the case, nor to discuss the instructions given to the jury by the circuit court, except the following: “ The…