State v. Koen

HOLMAN, Judge.

Defendants were charged with the offense of assault with intent to do great bodily harm with malice aforethought under the provisions of § 559.180. 1 Each defendant was convicted of the lesser offense of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, without malice, and the punishment assessed was a fine of $100 and imprisonment in the St. Louis city workhouse for a term of six months. See § 559.190. Defendants have duly appealed. We affirm.

Although this was a lengthy trial, and the transcript contains more than 750 pages, we think a reasonably brief statement of the essential…