State v. Dugger

These are two appeals by the defendant, Cecil Dugger, from two judgments of the circuit court, each based upon a verdict of a jury, which adjudges him guilty of the crime of assault and battery. One of the two crimes, according to the judgments, was committed upon one Kenneth Puttkamer, and the other upon an individual named Charles Borquist. The two charges were tried concurrently. The judgments order the defendant’s imprisonment in the Multnomah County jail for a term of nine months. Appeals were taken in both cases.

The two assignments of error concern instructions given to the jury; the…