State v. King

The defendant was indicted for a felonious assault, and was convicted, in tbe language of tbe verdict, “ of maiming, wounding, disfiguring and endangering tbe life of one S. D. Fuller, without intent to kill,” and was fined $125.

Tbe following extract from tbe defendant’s testimony states tbe circumstances of tbe assault: “ I was helping Mr. G. W. Ford to thresh on tbe 6th of last August, 1880. I was pitching wheat from tbe stack to the feed-table; 'we bad finished the stack on the south side, and I was tbe only *556one pitching to the table on the north side. I went to the edge of the stack to…