State v. Trujillo

BRICE, Chief Justice.

The appellants were convicted and sentenced to serve terms in the state penitentiary upon a charge by information that they had committed the “crime of mayhem” iñ that “said defendants did, with malicious intent to maim or disfigure, destroy the right eye of one Robert Valencia.” The basis of this information is the following New Mexico statute: “If any person, with malicious intent to maim or disfigure, shall cut out or maim the tongue, put out or destroy an eye, cut or tear off an ear, cut or slit or mutilate 'the nose or lip, or cut off or disable a limb or member of…