State v. Pasnau
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. Bobert Sloan, • Judge. Deeendant, with seven others, was indicted for the crime of an assault with intent to murder one G. W. Houston. On a separate trial, he was convicted of ah assault with intent to inflict a great bodily injury, and from the judgment appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The theory of the state is that defendant entered into a conspiracy with his codefendaüts to commit the crime; or that defendant aided and abetted the actual perpetrator of the offense, and was therefore guilty, although he did not himself make the assault. One of the defenses was intoxication. Defendant asked an instruction to the effect that if, at the time of the affray, he was so intoxicated as to be incapable^ of entertaining a specific intent to kill or to inflict a great bodily injury, he should not be convicted of either of these degrees of crime. He also requested the court to charge…
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