The People v. Browning

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Franklin county on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to murder and brings the record here for review, assigning error in the admission of testimony and the refusing of instructions, and further contending that the evidence did not warrant the verdict of guilty of assault with intent to murder.

The evidence of the People tends to show that about eleven o’clock P. M. on July 29, 1925, complaining witness, James Bennett, was struck on the head with a blunt instrument as he was leaving the house of the divorced wife of…