Allen v. People

This was an indictment, in the circuit court of Lake county, against the plaintiff in error, under section 25, chapter 38, Revised Statutes of 1874, page 355, which provides that “an assault with a deadly weapon, instrument or other thing, with intent to inflict upon the person of another a bodily injury, where no considerable provocation appears, or where the circumstances of the assault show an abandoned and malignant heart, shall subject the offender to a fine not exceeding $1000, nor less than $25, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or both, in the…