State v. Hix

AILSHIE, C. J. —

Appellant was convicted of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon (an open pocket knife) on the person of one Weeding. The altercation and fight took place in a beer parlor known as Lafe’s Place in St. Anthony, the evening of July 22, 1937. During the afternoon and evening of that day, Weeding had been drinking beer, and some hard liquor, and shooting craps. After receiving a ten-dollar bill and placing same in a billfold in his pocket, Weeding said he was told by someone that appellant had taken or stolen his money from him. He was then in the cardroom and he thereupon…