State v. Null

The appellant, a young married man 26 years old, was prosecuted by information and convicted by the jury of the crime of felonious assault with intent to do great bodily harm, in the circuit court of St. Louis county. The punishment assessed was two years imprisonment in the penitentiary, the lowest permissible punishment for a felony under See. 4850. There were twenty-one assignments of error in his motion for new trial, but they have been reduced to nine general assignments in his brief on this appeal.

These, still further condensed, assert: that the information was fatally defective and…