Watkins v. State

Appellant was indicted for the offense of assault with intent to kill, alleged to have been committed by assaulting Sam Humphreys with a deadly weapon.

At the trial from which this appeal comes, Humphreys testified that he was the marshal of the town of Norvell, and that a Mr. Matson, who operates a small store in the town, sent for witness to quell a disturbance in an adjoining house. When witness arrived, “there was some hollering going on in the house,” and a negro woman came out of the hack door and ran into another house. Appellant soon followed, and as he did so the messenger who had…