Case Name: State of Minnesota vs. Justus B. Bell
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1880-03-02
Citations: 26 Minn. 388
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Minnesota vs. Justus B. Bell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 388–389

Head Matter:
State of Minnesota vs. Justus B. Bell.
March 2, 1880.
Complaint — Place of Commission of Offence — Assault.—A county being named in the caption of a complaint, an allegation therein that the offence charged was committed at, etc., in said county, sufficiently states the county wherein it was committed. An averment that the defendant “ did wilfully and unlawfully assault complainant with a revolver ” imports an intentional attempt by violence to do him a bodily injury, and is sufficient to sustain a conviction for a simple assault, especialty after ' trial upon the merits without any objection.
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the municipal .court of Minneapolis.
J. H. Bradish, for appellant.
Geo. P. Wilson, Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
Cornell, J.
The allegation in the body of the complaint, that the assault was committed "at the city of Minneapolis, in said county," clearly refers to the county named in the venue stated in the caption thereof, and therefore indicates with sufficient certainty the place where the offence was committed. The offence charged was a simple assault. The averment that defendant "did wilfully and unlawfully assault the complainant with a revolver" imports, ex vi termini, an intentional attempt by violence to do a bodily injury to the complainant. The omission to specify'the particular acts relied upon to show the intention and the attempt, if a defect at all,' is not one of which the defendant can complain, after a full trial upon the merits, without objection. " .
Judgment and sentence of the court below affirmed.