State v. Cody
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of conviction of tbe appellant, rendered by tbe circuit court for tbe county of Multnomah, for an alleged crime. Tbe appellant was indicted in said court for feloniously cutting, slitting and mutilating tbe lip of one Joseph Morin. He pleaded not guilty to tbe indictment, was tried thereon by jury, found guilty as charged, and sentenced to imprisonment in tbe penitentiary of tbe State for one year. From which sentence this appeal was taken.
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Appeal from a judgment of conviction of tbe appellant, rendered by tbe circuit court for tbe county of Multnomah, for an alleged crime. Tbe appellant was indicted in said court for feloniously cutting, slitting and mutilating tbe lip of one Joseph Morin. He pleaded not guilty to tbe indictment, was tried thereon by jury, found guilty as charged, and sentenced to imprisonment in tbe penitentiary of tbe State for one year. From which sentence this appeal was taken. Tbe facts of tbe case appear in tbe opinion of tbe court.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, C. J.
The appellant was indicted under section 1785, Code of Crimes and Punishments, which reads as follows: “If any person shall purposely and maliciously, or in tbe commission or attempt to commit a felony, cut or tear out or disable the tongue, put out or destroy tbe eye, cut or slit or tear off an ear, cut or slit or mutilate tbe nose or lip>, or cut off or disable tbe limb or member of another, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment i:i tbe penitentiary for not less *508than one nor more than twenty years.” A demurrer was interposed to the indictment, which the…
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