State v. White

This is an indictment against the defendants, charging an assault on one Samuel E. Almy with intent to kill and murder.

At the trial of the case in the Court of Common Pleas the defendants were found guilty of an assault with a dangerous weapon, and they now petition for a new trial on the ground that the verdict is against the evidence, and that the presiding justice erred in his rulings of law and in his instructions to the jury.

The facts in the case, as shown by the stenographer’s report thereof, are substantially these : The defendant Isaac

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