Friederich v. People

At the January term, 1893, of the circuit court of St. Clair county, plaintiff in error was convicted of an assault with intent to commit murder, and by the judgment of that court sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years. From that judgment this writ of error is prosecuted.

The assault, as charged in the indictment, was made upon-one John Platt with a pine fence-paling, about three feet in length, two and one-lialf inches wide and one inch thick. A younger brother of plaintiff in error, named William; was jointly indicted with him, but at the trial a nolle prosequi was entered as…