State v. McDonie

Ritz, President:

The defendant was found guilty by a jury upon an indictment charging him with having committed a malicious assault upon his stepson James Gibson, with intent to maim, disfigure, disable and kill him, the said James Gibson, and to review a judgment sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary rendered upon said verdict he prosecutes this writ of error.

It appears that in the month of June, 1920, the defendant Joe McDonie married Susie Gibson, who was. the widow of James M. Gibson, and the mother of James Gibson, a boy six years of age. Prior to her marriage to McDonie this…