People v. Smith

Defendant, Fred Smith, was convicted, upon bis plea of guilty, of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder, MCLA § 750.84 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.279), and sentenced to imprisonment for one and one-half to ten years.

*75From the record below it is difficult to understand the events that transpired before the assault with which defendant is charged. Apparently, however, the defendant and his wife had had an argument. She called the police who apparently found it necessary to protect defendant’s wife from him. In response to the police protection of his wife,…