State v. Mills

Woods., PkesideNt :

G-. 0. Mills was indicted and tried before tbe criminal court of Raleigh county for. malicious wounding of one Day Snuffer. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of assault and battery, which verdict was set aside, on motion of the defendant, on the ground that the jury was improperly instructed. At the second trial the defendant tendered a plea of former jeopardy, setting up the fact that he had been previously arraigned before the mayor of the city of Beeldey for assault and battery in the same “altercation and fight”, and had there been adjudged to pay a fine of…