People v. Faulkner

Adolphus Faulkner is charged with aggravated assault and battery, in that it is alleged that he did cut one Nathaniel Gibbons across the face and on the chest with a razor, unlawfully, on or about the 2nd day of September, 1929. It appears from the evidence that the defendant, Faulkner, together with his sister, lived in a one-room house on Estate Hope; that the house is not on the main road to the village, but is the second house on a lateral path leading therefrom. This path appears not to have been a thoroughfare, but merely one for the use of the tenants of the houses abutting thereon,…