People v. Pearl
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Berrien. (O’Hara, J.) Respondents were informed against for assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder, and convicted of assault and battery. The facts, and points of counsel passed upon by the Court, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
Respondents were charged by information with assaulting one William B. Tyler, with intent to do-great bodily harm, less than the crime of murder. They were convicted of assault and battery, which amounted to an acquittal of the felonious charge.
The case is peculiar in some of its features, and the finding of the jury must have been suggested by legal difficulties in understanding the elements of such offenses. Tyler was very severely punished, but it is hard to see any disposition on the part of defendants to do him permanent injury that would disable him. On the other hand, if they are…
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