Pierson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for an assault with intent to murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years.

The alleged injured party was .one, Skinner, who was a carpenter and was working upon a window of a building, upon which building two negroes named Starks and Pierson were working on the roof. Starks offended Skinner by sweeping some dirt in the window. Some insulting language was interchanged and Skinner went out through another window and up on the roof at the invitation of Starks, and carried with him, according to his statement,…