Steinbrecher was the military servant of an officer who had purchased a revolver from Stiegele. He was sent by his master to Stiegele with the loaded revolver to have a cartridge removed from the barrel(chamber?). Stiegele, thinking the revolver was being returned as defective, grabbed it from the soldier, without waiting for an explanation, and as it was pointing in the soldiers direction, the revolver went off, wounding the soldier in the chest, and causing him permanent damage and the loss of 170 days of work. Since the incident was not intentional, Stiegele was charged with negligent bodily harm to another and fined 150 (florins?). The prosecutor immediately appealed this decision on the grounds that his request for a term of imprisonment was incorrectly denied and that, because of the defendants wealth, the fine was inconsequential.
