Hallett v. State

Shepherd, District Judge.

*312In this case the plaintiff in error, defendant below, was convicted of an assault with intent to do great bodily injury. He attacked Mr. Cliff Penn, a school-teacher and superintendent of schools of the town of Lynch, as they met upon the village street, knocked him down with his fist and struck him again while down, inflicting upon him by his blows and by the described fall a deep two-inch cut above his eye, • a contusion on the back of his head, a cut on the inside of his check, and several minor abrasions on his face. .

The evidence is conclusive that the teachgr…