Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1902 — Wallick Gets a New Trial. [ARTICLE]

Wallick Gets a New Trial.

Jacob Y. Wallick, who was tried on a grand jury indictment charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, and whom the jury convicted of simple assault and battery, fixing his punisoment at S6OO fine and six months in jail, has been granted a new trial. Judge Palmer held that the verdict was not justified by the evidence. The shooting at the house could not be “assault and battery” as found by the jury, for the reason that Reynolds was not touched. The shooting in the road, in which Reynolds was shot in the hand, was either assault and battery with intent to kill, or it was done in self-defense, as claimed by Wallick. If it was the former a fine and jail sentence was not adequate punishment; if it was the latter Wallick should have been acquitted. Hence the verdict was set aside and new trial granted.—Monticello Democrat.