State v. Ring

On October 2,1956, the prosecuting attorney for Ferry county, Washington, filed an amended information charging Harold Ring, his sixteen-year-old son, Harold Matthew Ring, and Eugene Merle Bailey with the crime of assault in the second degree, committed upon one Charles Coffman on July 9,1956.

The defendants entered a plea of not guilty and the case came on for trial before a jury on March 6, 1957. At the conclusion of the trial, the jury returned a verdict finding Harold Ring and his son guilty as charged; Bailey, not guilty. The trial court denied defendants’ motion for arrest of judgment…