Opinion ID: 2061394
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Heading: assault with intent to commit a felony

Text: R.S. 1841, ch. 154 § 31 proscribed the following conduct: If any person shall assault another with intent to commit any felony or crime, punishable with imprisonment in the state prison, where the punishment for such assault is not otherwise herein before prescribed, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, not more than five years, or by fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year. (Emphasis added.) §§ 29 and 30 of this act prohibited assaults with intent to murder, kill, maim, rob, steal, commit arson and commit burglary. We construe the 1841 Act as authorizing an indictment for assault with intent to commit felonies other than those described in §§ 29 and 30. This statute has remained in effect in essentially the same form ever since and is now found in 17 M.R.S.A. § 202.