Case Name: STATE v. MITCHELL
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1922-05-01
Citations: 151 La. 540
Docket Number: No. 25174
Parties: STATE v. MITCHELL.
Judges: By Division C, composed of Justices DAWKINS, ST. PAUL, and THOMPSON.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 151
Pages: 539–541

Head Matter:
(92 South. 50)
No. 25174.
STATE v. MITCHELL.
(May 1, 1922)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
Homicide &wkey;>l4l (4) — Information for assault not Insufficient because not alleging shooting was with malice aforethought.
An information for shooting with intent to kill and murder, which charged that the shooting was done willfully, maliciously, feloniously, and unlawfully, was not insufficient, because it failed to allege that it was done with malice aforethought.
Appeal from Thirtieth Judicial District Court, Parish of Caldwell; F. E. Jones, Judge.
Ezra Mitchell was convicted of shooting with intent to kill, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
C. P. Thornhill, of Columbia, for appellant.
A. Y. Coco, Atty. Gen., and J. B. Thornhill, Dist. Atty., of .Columbia, and (T. S. Walrnsley, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
By Division C, composed of Justices DAWKINS, ST. PAUL, and THOMPSON.

Opinion:
THOMPSON, J.
The defendant, Ezra Mitchell, was tried for shooting one Willie Robertson with intent to kill and murder him, and was convicted of shooting with intent to kill. From a sentence and judgment which condemned him to serve from 12 to 16 months in the state penitentiary, the defendant brings up this appeal.
1.The sole bill of exception relied on is to the overruling by the trial judge of a motion - in arrest of judgment. The motion is leveled at the sufficiency of the information, in that it fails to allege that the shooting was done with "malice aforethought." A similar motion in arrest of judgment was made in the case of State v. Wear Martin (No. 25175) 92 South. 334, this day decided adversely to the contention of counsel in the present case. The words "malice aforethought" are not sacramental in an indictment for shooting with intent to kill and murder. It is sufficient under the statute denouncing that crime to charge that the shooting was done "willfully, maliciously, feloniously, and unlawfully," the language used in the information under which the defendant was tried and convicted. State v. Hopkins, 115 La. 786, 40 South. 166.
It is therefore ordered and decreed that the conviction, sentence, and judgment thereon are affirmed.
Post, p. 780.