Cicero v. State

Warner, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted for the offense of an assault witii intent to murder, and on -the trial therefor was found guilty by the jury. A motion was made for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to law, contrary to the evidence, and without evidence to sustain it; because the court erred in admitting the evidence of the committing magistrate over the objection of defendant, that on the commitment trial before him he examined the defendant, who slated at first “that he was in his house cooking some bread for for his children when the gun fired, and…