State v. Langston

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parlange, J.

The defendant was charged with an assault upon one Richard Berry by shooting at said Berry. The defendant was tried by a jury, found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of six months. He has appealed, and he relies, for the reversal of the verdict and sentence, upon the error which he urges to have been committed by the trial judge in overruling his motion for a new trial.

*1183The reasons for which the new trial was asked are:

1. “That the defendant is indicted under Sec. 792 of the Revised Statutes of the…