State v. Craft

Kenna, Judge:

Thomas V. Craft was indicted in the Circuit Court of Lewis County for malicious assault in violation of the provisions of Code, 61-2-9, upon Andrew Holt on the-day of October, 1944, being accused and acquitted of malicious and unlawful assault but convicted of assault and battery, fined $100.00 and costs, and sentenced to thirty days in the Lewis County jail, this Court awarding a writ of error and supersedeas upon petition of the accused on the 19th day of June, 1947. Since one of the principal assignments of error rests upon the insufficiency of the State’s evidence and quite a…