Tennessee Supreme Court February 7, 1872 (Maxwell v. State)

NicholsoN, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff in error and three others, (all colored,) were indicted in the Circuit Court of Coffee county, for an assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree, upon Leauder Carden, (prosecutor,) and William Keele. Defendant alone was tried, the other three having fled the country.