State v. Myrick

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

Hiram Myrick was charged jointly with Frank Blainey, with assaulting and beating one C. A. Smith with a deadly weapon, and with' the intent to kill and murder him. He was separately tried, and found guilty of wounding Smith in the manner charged, and under circumstances which would have constituted manslaughter in the third degree if death had ensued from the wound. A sentence of two years’ imprisonment was pronounced, from which judgment he appeals here, and seeks a reversal for insufficiency of the information, and for rulings made by…