Howard v. State

The defendant was convicted of assault with intent io murder. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepts. The complaint of the plaintiff in error, though variously presented by the learned and ingenious counsel, is addressed to ohly one point, — the failure of the court to instruct the jury that *831the defendant might be found guilty of assault and battery. 'The ■exceptions contained in the seventh and eighth grounds' of' the amended motion for new trial, in which it is insisted that the court erred in certain instructions, are without merit, when the ■excerpts complained of are…