State v. Konon

The defendant was, by information, charged with the crime of assault in the first degree, alleged to have been committed on. August 20, 1927, upon the person of his brother, Luca Konon, ‘ ‘ with a means or force likely to produce death, to-wit, a quantity of high explosive, the exact nature of which is unknown, and a contrivance or apparatus for exploding the same; that the said defendant, knowing that the said Luca Konon, riding in his automobile, would pass over a certain trail, leading to the home of the said Luca Konon, placed said explosive in or upon the ground in about the middle of…