People v. Scott
Michigan Supreme Court
On exceptions from tbe Recorder’s Conrt of the city of Detroit. The prisoner was tried at the December term of said court, on an information for assault with intent to murder one McDonald. Several witnesses were examined, as well for the Government as for the prisoner, whose testimony established the following facts: The prisoner and McDonald are both sailors, and met for the first time on the dock, where then’ respective vessels were lying, on the night of the assault.
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On exceptions from tbe Recorder’s Conrt of the city of Detroit. The prisoner was tried at the December term of said court, on an information for assault with intent to murder one McDonald. Several witnesses were examined, as well for the Government as for the prisoner, whose testimony established the following facts: The prisoner and McDonald are both sailors, and met for the first time on the dock, where then’ respective vessels were lying, on the night of the assault. They had both been drinking, and the latter was very much intoxicated. The prisoner was visiting the captain of the schooner…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
The respondent, having been convicted of an assault with intent to commit the crime of murder, alleged exceptions before sentence, and these are certified up for our opinion under the statute.
The first exception was taken to so much of the charge of the Court as defines the various classes of homicide, and instructs the jury what facts must exist to render the accused guilty of the offense charged.
As abstract definitions, we are of opinion that the definitions given are wanting in preciseness, and would not, in many cases, be as accurate as they should be to guide a jury. But it…
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