State v. Cosgrove

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Essex County Quarter Sessions of atrocious assault and battery and was sentenced to the Essex county penitentiary for the term of eight months. It appears from the record that he had been indicted and tried on a charge of manslaughter for causing the death of Mary Mullaney and was acquitted. He was also indicted for atrocious assault and battery upon one Lillian Dowling, which assault and battery grew out of the same act that caused the death of Mary Mullaney.

The facts on which the indictment of…