People v. York

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted, in the Court of Sessions of Yuba county, of an assault with intent to commit murder. A motion for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against law and the evidence, was made and overruled, and the defendant appealed.

*422•-¡-The indictment -charges the assault to have been eofnmitted with a knife upon the person of one Ira Marsh,'the prosecuting witness in-thé case.' -The record purports to give the su'bstáhee of-all that was proved oh the trial on the part of the prosecution ; and it appears-that the defendant, whilst in a! state…