State v. Steidel

The theory of the state is that a policeman of Astoria, Holder by name, was engaged in the arrest of a man named Swanson and pursued him into the front room of an establishment maintaining a cigar-store in the front room and pool-tables in the back room; and that Swanson resisted, and, while he and the officer were engaged in a struggle over a pistol which the policeman had drawn and had discharged three or four times, the defendant came in from the back room and interfered in the struggle, wrested the pistol from Holder, and beat him over the head with it. The theory of the defend*683ant is that…