State v. Hood

This is an appeal by the defendant Charles Junior Hood from a judgment of the circuit court which adjudged him guilty of the crime of assault with a dangerous weapon. The judgment was based upon the verdict of a jury. The indictment charged this defendant and a co-indictee by the name of Louis Gibbons with:

“* * * then and there acting together, and then and there being armed with a dangerous weapon, to-wit, a stove poker, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously assault one Cyril Bierle by then and there striking and beating the said Cyril Bierle on the head and face with said…