State v. Green

By the court: (Slidell, J., absent.)

Preston, J.

This case having been tried ex parte, we have kept it under advisement longer than usual, being unaided by argument or authority, on behalf of the State. From the best examination we have been able to give the case, we have come to the conclusion, that the appeal ought not to prevail.

*519The indictment charges that the prisoner, with two other persons, made an assault upon one Michael Hughes, and with a dangerous weapon, called a colt, inflicted many blows upon him, with intent to commit the crime of murder. The statute prescribes, that whoever shall…