Commonwealth v. Phillips

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

Appellant was indicted and tried on the charge of aggravated assault and battery in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Mercer County. He was convicted of assault and battery. A motion for a new trial was re fused, and defendant was sentenced to pay the costs of prosecution and a fine of $200, and to undergo imprisonment in the Mercer County Jail for a period of not less than thirty days and not more than ninety days. A supersedeas was granted by the court below.

The bill of indictment charged aggravated assault and battery 1 upon one Arthur I-Iicks on December 19, 1955,…