State v. Bradbury

The opinion of the court-was delivered by

Pollock, J :

These two cases are separate appeals from several judgments convicting defendant of assaulting and beating one Samuel P. Burnett and Fidelia Burnett, his wife. Upon the trials defendant admitted the assault and battery charged, but made the attempt to justify his conduct on the ground that it was done in forcibly ejecting the parties assaulted from a tract of land to the possession of which he was lawfully entitled and of which possession he had been wrongfully deprived by the parties assaulted ; that in *809driving the wrong-doers from his…