State v. Sayman

— Defendant appealed from a judgment of conviction on an information charging him with unlawfully assaulting, beating and wounding Helen Hampton. The case was tried in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction. No instructions or- declarations of law were asked or given.

We are pressed to reverse the judgment on the weight of the evidence. Helen Hampton, the prose*142cutrix, swore positively that defendant made a violent and unprovoked assault,upon her and struck her in the face with his fist, in his own house where she had called in a peaceful and orderly manner for the purpose of getting a…