Midkiff v. State

— The defendant was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon, charged in the information to have been committed on the person of one E. L. Guernsey with a knife, on January 31, 1924.

He appeals and asks that the judgment of conviction be reversed and he be granted a new trial for thirteen reasons, which he makes the basis of that many very informal and insufficient assignments of error. We will overlook the informality and the lack of compliance with our rules and take up these assignments and give to each of them such consideration as they seem to merit.

The first is that “the court erred…