Case ID: mo_65/html/0606-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Sherwood, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Moore, Appellant.
    An. Indictment for a felonious assault under Sec. 23, Wag. Stat., p. 450, need not state that the act was done willfully, intentionally, with malice, with a deadly, or dangerous weapon, or under circumstances, which, had death ensued, would have constituted murder or manslaughter.
    
      Appeal from Bates Circuit Court—IIon. Foster P. Wright, Judge.
    
      J. L. Smith, Attorney General, for the State,
    cited Jennings v. State, 9 Mo. 852; State v. Magrath, 19 Mo. 679; State v. Bailey, 21 Mo. 484; State v. Bohannon, lb. 490; State v. Thompson, 30 Mo. 470.
   Sherwood, C. J.

Indictment under section 33, 1 Wagn. Stat., p. 450 for feloniously making an assault with a large knife on the body of one Cherry, and with the knife feloniously wounding and disfiguring, and inflicting great bodily harm on said Cherry, and endangering his life. The section has heretofore received repeated judicial construction, and the authorities cited on behalf of the State fully sustain the position that it is unnecessary that the indictment state that the act was done willfully, intentionally, with malice, with a deadly or dangerous weapon, or under circumstances which, had death ensued, would have constituted murder or manslaughter. Judgment affirmed. All concur. Aeeirmed.