State v. Ragsdale

The defendant Ragsdale was indicted for an assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree. The jury- found him guilty of an assault with an intent to *672commit murder in the second degree, and assessed bis. punishment at a fine of five hundred dollars and the costs. The trial judge reduced his fine, “for satisfactory reasons,” to seventy-five dollars, in an entry which recites that the defendant and two persons named as sureties acknowledged themselves bound for the fine and costs “ entered against him on a former day of the term.” The record does not contain any entry of judgment on…