State v. O'Connor

The appeal is from a conviction of assault in the second degree. After sentence, a motion for a new trial was heard and denied.

Defendant, a young farmer, resided near two tenant farmers in Waseca county by the name of Fred Cody and George B. Stehly. These neighbors had been on friendly terms, defendant and his wife having been invited by the latter to their home for ice cream on an evening a few weeks prior to the alleged assault. Shortly after that social visit,'a misunderstanding seems to have arisen out of the circumstance that a young lad who was to watch cattle for Cody *47and Stehly was…