State v. Waltz

Matson, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of conviction of defendant for assault in the second degree.2 The information charged that defendant made an assault on one Arthur F. Porter with a weapon (a knife) likely to produce grievous bodily harm and that defendant wounded Porter with the knife.

On July 29,1950, about 1:25 a. m., Rita Mary Buhl and her friend Margaret M. Pickhartz met defendant at Seven Corners in St. Paul. Margaret was engaged to marry defendant. Shortly thereafter they met and fell into a conversation with Lawrence Everson, who had been visiting drinking places the…