State v. Schele

52 Iowa 608 | Iowa | 1879

Day, J.

1 criminal crhné'^as-^1 sauit. — I. Counsel for the appellant insist that the court erred in instructing the jury that they could consider the crime °*' an assanR with,intent to do great bodily injury an<^ ^ie defendant guilty thereof if the evidence warranted such finding. They cite and rely upon State of Iowa v. White, 41 Iowa, 317. The court below in sustaining the motion in arrest of judgment, to the extent and upon the ground stated, evidently followed that case, as above reported. Upon a rehearing, however, which was granted in that case, a different conclusion was reached, and it was held that an indictment for an assault with intent to commit murder does include the offense of an assault with intent to commit manslaughter. State v. White, 45 Iowa, 325. For a like reason, such an indictment includes the offense of assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury. The court did not err in giving the instruction complained of. The error of the court was in sustaining the motion in arrest of judgment upon the ground that there was error in said instructions. But this error was not prejudicial, to the defendant, and of it he cannot complain.

2__._. practice. II. It is insisted that the court, having found that the defendant could not, under, the indictment, be convicted of an assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury, should have set aside the verdict in tolo and granted a new trial. The court overruled all the grounds of the motion for a new trial, except.the one above stated: As we have seen, that ground should have been overruled. The court was satisfied that the evidence sustained the verdict, and that the defendant was in ail respects legally convicted, except that the offense of which the defendant was convicted was not included in the indictment. Under such circumstances the court did not err in sentencing the defendant for an offense included in the indictment and necessarily included in' the verdict which the jury returned.

III. It is lastly urged by appellant’s counsel, that the evidence is not sufficient to convict the defendant of any crime. The abstract does not contain any statement that it is an abstract of all the evidence. If, however, we should regard all the evidence as before us, we think we would not be warranted in disturbing the verdict as not supported by the evidence.

The above considerations dispose of all the objections urged by counsel of appellant in argument. We'have, however, examined the entire record, and we discover no error prejudicial to the defendant.

Affirmed.