State v. Totterdell

MR JUSTICE CASTLES:

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of first degree assault on a verdict of a jury and from an order denying a new trial. .

The charge arose out of a shooting. One Richard Brown was shot in the back in the evening of July 26, 1957, as he ran from ■a house in which the defendant lived. The defendant fired twice from the doorway; the second.shot felling Brown as he reached the street. At the time of the trial Brown was still paralyzed below the thorax and it appears that he may be crippled for life.

The events leading up to the shooting are as follows: The defendant…