People v. Cantwell

The plaintiff in error was found guilty by a jury in the Municipal Court of assault and battery and fined $75 and costs. The witnesses in the case are not in accord on the exact details of the affair, which culminated in a blow by the plaintiff in error that knocked down and broke the nose of a baseball umpire named Kerin, but there is nothing in the record throwing the least doubt on the fact that the blow was given in anger and wholly without legal justification. Beyond this there was evidence for the State quite sufficient to enable a jury to form a further belief that the act was without…