Court Opinion

ID: 6987395
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 03:18:48.305144+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:09:30.304740
License: Public Domain

Casey, J. The defendants were charged in the Franklin County Circuit Court with an assault with an intent to commit murder. A motion to quash the indictment was interposed in the circuit court, which motion was overruled and exceptions taken to the ruling of the court. The indictment was fatally defective in this — it failed to charge that the assault was committed with malice aforethought. The motion to quash should have been alloived. Wharton’s Criminal Law, 3 Ed. 552; Conoley v. The People, 3 Scam. 474; Nixon v. The People, 2 Scam. 267. It seems from the record that the defendants, against their protest, were placed on trial for an assault with intent to do a bodily injury. If such a practice could prevail, the indictment was still more defective as charging an assault with intent to do a bodily injury. There was an entire failure to describe the latter offense in the words of the statute, or so plainly that the nature of the offense might be easily understood by the jury. The judgment of the circuit court is reversed, and the case remanded. Eeversed and remanded.