People v. Niles

The defendant was prosecuted and convicted on a charge of assault with intent to kill and murder one John "Wyant. The evidence tended to show that the assault was made with a knife while Wyant was riding upon a horse in the public highway, and that a downward stroke of the knife cut the clothes of Wyant and inflicted a wound to the horse below the backbone, over the swell of the ribs, cutting the hair off square across over the wound. The case comes before us on exceptions.

Several of the exceptions are to the rulings of the court in the reception and rejection of evidence in respect to…