People v. Molinet

The defendant was convicted in a court of special sessions of the crime of assault in the third degree, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $20, or, in default of payment, to be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding twenty days. He paid the fine, was released from custody, and has since appealed from the judgment to this court.

Two grounds of alleged error are assigned why the judgment should be reversed,—one that tlhe evidence was insufficient to justify the conviction; and the other that the defendant was refused a trial by jury after he had seasonably demanded it. We cannot say, from…