State v. Hurst
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant and others were indicted by the grand jury of Ramsey county charged with the crime of assault in the second degree. Defendant Hurst was tried separately in the district court for that county before Catlin J., and a jury which found him guilty as charged in the indictment. From the judgment entered pursuant to the verdict, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
John M. Guise, a high school principal, was assaulted and beaten by two men, while engaged in starting his car in the rear of his home, at about 7:30 a. m. of October 21, 1921. The assault was committed with an instrument, described in the indictment as a blackjack or some other instrument likely to produce grievous bodily harm. It is not claimed that defendant in person committed the assault, but that he procured it to be committed. Defendant was convicted and he appeals from the judgment of conviction.
1. We address ourselves first to the contention that the verdict is not justified by the…
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