State v. George

Columbus George was indicted in the court below for an assault and battery upon the person of Joseph Bartlett, with intent to murder him, and upon trial *435was acquitted. The State reserved some questions o.f law for the decision of this court, and brings the record here for that purpose.

On the trial, the defendant offered in evidence the record of his former conviction of an assault and battery upon said Bartlett, before a justice of the peace of the county, and also the affidavit on which that conviction rkas founded. This evidence was objected to by the State, but the objection was overruled…