People v. Clark

Staley, Jr., J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Madison County rendered October 10, 1966 upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of assault in the second degree. The defendant, a 56-year-old man with a fourth grade education, was indicted by the Grand Jury, Madison County on July 14, 1966. The indictment accused the defendant of having committed the crime of assault in the second degree in that on May 4, 1966 he had assaulted Lúe Sindia Spratt by willfully and wrongfully wounding and inflicting grievous bodily harm upon her with a single-bladed axe. After a trial the…