State v. Bowen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendant appeals from a conviction on a charge of assault with intent to kill.

The facts were substantially as follows: On the night of August 18,1923, Ed Cunningham, a police officer of the city of Hutchinson, was dangerously wounded by the defendant in the yard of one Mrs. Lucile Dixon. The defendant lived with his family about two blocks north of the Dixon place. His story was that, about 11:30 o’clock on the night in question, when downtown, he was given some medicine by a physician to take to Mrs. Dixon; that Mrs. Dixon lived alone…