State v. Harris

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The defendant was indicted on two counts, viz:

■1st. With having feloniously and wilfully stabbed one Jean Baptiste Lalande with a certain dangerous weapon, to-wit,.a knife, with intent to kill and murder him.

2d. With having feloniously and wilfully, and with a dangerous weapoD, inflicted on said Jean Baptiste Lalande a wound less than mayhem.

Having been convicted on the latter, he was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the penitentiary, and from that sentence appeals.

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When the jury returned into court they reported as their verdict the…