State v. Laughlin

The defendant was convicted of the crime of assault in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years. The assault was committed upon the person of James Pringle, a justice of the peace in Deer Lodge county. This appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

Three specifications of error are assigned: (1) On the court’s instruction numbered 6%, as to what constitutes “grievous Wlily harm’’; (2) on the court’s refusal to strike the affidavit of M. P. Mahoney; and (3) on the court’s denial of defendant’s motion for a new trial.

Pringle…