State v. Stucker

The appellant was convicted in the circuit court of Vernon county of an-assault on one Jessie (Stucker) Hill, his divorced wife, with intent to kill, using a pistol loaded with powder and leaden balls. The crime is a felony punishable under Sec. 4408 1 by “not less than two years” imprisonment in the penitentiary. The maximum punishment is therefore life imprisonment. Sec. 4850. The imprisonment fixed by the jury was twenty years. An opinion, was written in this court at the January call, 1944 of the September term, 1943. At that time the case was here on the record proper, no bill of…