Ingram v. State

Opinion of the Court, delivered by

Tompkins, Judge.

Ingraham was indicted, and the indictment charges that he wilfully and feloniously did make an assault upon the body of one Lewis Johnson, and dill wilfully and feloniously beat, bruise, wound, disfigure, and greatly injure the said Lewis Johnson, &c. The jury found Ingraham guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment, and assessed against him a line of forty dollars.

The appellant moved for a new trial, First, because the verdict was contrary to evidence; Second, because the jury has in its verdict assessed the penalty of a…