De Arman v. State

The plaintiff in error, Jonas De Ar-man, here referred to as the defendant, was convicted of the crime of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm without justifiable or excusable cause. His punishment was fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

Defendant was charged with having assaulted H. S. Mathews with a wrecking bar, described as a steel bar about 30 inches long and seven-eights of an inch in diameter, hexagon-shaped, with a hook at one end, and the other end shaped like a chisel. The difficulty out of which the assault grew…