State v. Doyon

MARDEN, Justice.'

On exceptions to admission of evidence and to an instruction to the jury by the presiding Justice.

Title 17 M.R.S.A. § 2656 provides that:

“Whoever assaults another with intent to murder or kill, if armed with a dangerous weapon, shall be punished * *

Under this statute the exceptant by indictment was charged as follows: “did feloniously assault one Clinton Caron, he, the said Robert Doyon, being then and there armed with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a kitchen knife, with intent him, the said Clinton Caron, then and there feloniously, willfully and of his malice aforethought, to…