State v. Jones

The appellant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Buchanan' County with an assault with intent to kill, and' upon a trial to a jury was found guilty and his punishment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this judgment he appeals.

One Mike Flaherty, on the 21st day of October, 1923, kept in the city of St. Joseph what, for euphony and by way of designation, is called a “soft-drink parlor.” On that day Charles Fairbanks, the person assaulted, upon entering this place found the appellant and Flaherty in a quarrel over an unpaid bill of the former. Upon the…