State v. Eaton

Defendant was convicted after jury trial of four offenses, consolidated for trial, of “assault and battery while unarmed by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.” OBS 163.255.① The four offenses arose from one incident where four girls were pushed into the Columbia River by the defendant. Defendant was sentenced to three concurrent five-year terms and one consecutive term of five years. Since this comes to us on a demurrer to the indictments we do not have before us whether the facts developed at the trial warranted submission of the four cases to the jury. That the…