Fritz v. State

The appellant was indicted in the court below for an assault and battery upon one Lindley Pierce, with intent to murder him, and, upon trial, was convicted of the assault and battery charged, but acquitted of the felony.

The defendant moved for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, and that the court erred in giving and refusing certain specified charges. The motion was overruled and exception taken.

On the trial, the defendant gave in evidence the record of a conviction of the defendant of an affray, before a justice of the peace of the same county, and it…