Read v. State

This was an indictment against Neal Read for an assault and battery with intent to murder. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary.

On the trial the Court permitted the state to prove that the defendant had said, a short time before he committed the assault, that he expected to kill some one before he left town.

This evidence might tend to show the intention of the defendant in making the assault, and was rightly admitted.

The Court gave the following instruction:

“ The counsel for the defendant quoted in argument Selfridge's case tried at Boston, and also that of Noble…