Bice v. State

Robert Bice was convicted in the court below of an assault upon one James Adkins with intent to inflict great bodily injury, and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the state penitentiary.. He has brought the record to this court for review, and will hereafter be called the defendant.

It is first urged that the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence. The information on which he was tried charged a violation of section 17¾ of the criminal *160code, and we have held in several cases that the words “great bodily injury,” as employed in that section, imply an injury of a greater and…