Cordero v. State

The conviction was predicated upon Subdivision 8 of Art. 1147, P.C., which renders an assault aggravated when committed “with premeditated design, and by the use of means calculated to inflict great bodily injury.”

Here is the question propounded to Dr. Taylor:

“Doctor, in your opinion, if a man the age and size of Harrison Luhn was beaten about the head by a person the size of this defendant, Cordero, with his fists, and kicked in the region of the right loin, where you indicated Mr. Luhn had some contusions, by an adult male, with his foot with a shoe on that foot, would that be a means…