State v. Barella

The defendant in this case was indicted for committing an assault with a dangerous weapon upon the person of a state fish and game warden. He was convicted by a jury in the superior court in the county of Washington, and his motion for a new trial was subsequently denied by the trial justice. The case is here on the defendant’s exceptions to that and other rulings made during the course of the trial.

The indictment, found by the grand jurors of the state of Rhode Island in and for the county of Washington, charged that the defendant, on March 18, 1946, “with force and arms, at North Kingstown…