People v. Prague

The information charged defendant with an assault with intent to murder. He was tried and convicted of the statutory offense of committing an assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder.

Defendant is an Italian, unable to understand or speak the English language, and on July 8, 1887, while in company with another Italian, whom he called his “partner/ while on board the steamer China, bound up the lakes, a row occurred between defendant or his partner and the first cook of the vessel, and in the melee one of the Italians, claimed to be the defendant, cut & man…