State v. Watson

HOUSER, Commissioner

Under § 559.210 1 defendants Roy Watson and Don Eggar were charged with and convicted of having feloniously made an assault upon one Eldon Welch by striking him with their fists, whereby he received great bodily harm. The jury assessed the punishment of Watson at three years in the penitentiary, and that of Eggar at imprisonment in the county jail for three months and a fine of $100. Both defendants have appealed from the judgment and sentence.

Six or eight months prior to the incident in question Watson and Welch had trouble over Welch’s claim that Watson’s hound-dog had…