State v. Saale

The appellant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County with an assault with intent to kill, and upon a trial was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.. Prom, that judgment she appeals.

Peter Saale, the husband of the appellant, was the victim of the assault. He and his wife lived on a farm in St. Charles County. Joseph Saale, the brother of Peter, lived alone in a house about five hundred feet from that occupied by Peter and his family, consisting of the appellant and their five children. Some time after eight o’clock on the…