State v. Johnson

On the trial of the appellee upon an indictment for involuntary manslaughter, the evidence showed that on the 16th day of August, 1884, he and one Carbon met in a saloon in Valparaiso, Indiana; that the appellee, without cause or provocation, knocked Carbon down, seized and threw him through a screen door, Carbon falling on his back with his feet over the door sill. Some time during the *248course of the assault thus made upon him, Carbon received a wound which lacerated the flesh and exposed the bones of one of his thumbs at the first joint; notwithstanding the wound was properly cared for,…