The appellant was charged in superior court with the crime of assault in the second degree. On trial, he admitted that he went into his estranged wife's bedroom late at night, intending to cut off her hair (according to an "old country" custom of disgruntled husbands); that he held an ether-soaked rag over her face, and when she resisted him, put his hand over her throat and hit her twice with his fist. He was...
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