Case Name: J. B. Wimberly v. The State
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1879
Citations: 7 Tex. Ct. App. 329
Docket Number: 
Parties: J. B. Wimberly v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 329–329

Head Matter:
J. B. Wimberly v. The State.
Assault with Intent to Murder.—To charge an assault with an intent to murder, the indictment must expressly allege whom the accused intended to murder. This cannot be left to inference that he intended to murder the person alleged to have been assaulted.
Appeal from the District Court of Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Burkhart.
The case is succinctly but clearly stated in the opinion.
Jones & Garnett, for the appellant.
Thomas Ball, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
Clark, J.
The defendant's motion in arrest of judgment should have been sustained. The indictment charges an assault by the defendant and others upon the person of one Alex. McConnico with a pistol, and made feloniously and upon express malice ; and further charges the discharge of the pistol at the said McConnico, "with the wilful and felonious intent and of their express malice aforethought to kill and murder," but fails to state whom they intended to murder. This cannot be left to inference, but must be expressly alleged. Whart. Prec, of Indict., sect. 242; The State v. Nations, 31 Texas, 561; The State v. Patrick, 3 Wis. 812.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded. Reversed and remanded.