People v. Wong Ah Leong

The appellant was charged with and convicted of the crime of an assault with an intent to commit murder, the charge being that he committed the assault “ with a deadly weapon, to wit, a knife, upon the person of one Leong Ly Gimen”; and he appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.

Appellant contends that the court erred in certain rulings touching the admissibility of evidence.

The prosecuting witness testified that while he was going up á pair of stairs leading from the street to the upper story of a house, he was cut by the appellant, who had followed him; that he (the witness) made an outcry and immediately turned and pursued the appellant down the stairs, and that appellant was arrested a few steps from the foot of the stairs by a man named Riordan. There was testimony on the part of defendant to the point that it was a third man who fled down the stairs; that . the third man ran away and escaped; and that the appellant, who was passing along the street, had merely stopped near the foot of the stairs at the time of his arrest because attracted by the outcry of the prosecuting witness. Riordan testified that he delivered the man whom he had arrested to…