Hernandez v. People

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Day.

Hernandez was found guilty by a jury of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to the state penitentiary. As grounds for reversal of the judgment, he asserts: 1. That the trial court erred in submitting a verdict to the jury which was inconsistent with the information, it having been brought about by a pen and ink alteration, and 2. That the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial after the complaining witness had volunteered a statement about a knife attack perpetrated upon him by the defendant which had occurred a year before the…