Gleaton v. State

How courts have described this case

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• 10-year sentence for assault upheld where defendant shot at three men, wounding all of them
• 10-year sentence for assault upheld where defendant shot at three men, wounding all of them
• “Statutes in derogation of the common law are strictly construed, and it is not to be presumed that the legislature by creating statutory assaults intended to make any alteration in the common law other than what has been specified and plainly pronounced.”
• “Statutes in derogation of the common law are strictly construed, and it is not to be presumed that the legislature by creating statutory assaults intended to make any alteration in the common law other than what has been specified and plainly pronounced.”
• “Statutes in derogation of the common law are strictly construed, and it is not to be presumed that the legislature by creating statutory assaults intended to make any alteration in the common law other than what has been specified and plainly pronounced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).