Court Opinion

ID: 4915541
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-22 00:08:44.719639+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:51.155546
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
Plaintiff in error was tried in the Criminal Court of Record for Duval county in July, 1900, upon an information charging that he, in that county, on September 11, 1899, “in and upon one Oscar Blockson with a certain deadly weapon, to-wit: a gun known as a musket which he the said James Robinson then, and there held in his hands, an assault did make and him. the said Oscar Block-son did then and there beat, bruise, wound and illtreat, he the said James Robinson then and there having a premeditated design and intent then and there unlawfully to kill and murder him, the said Oscar Blockson; wherefore, by virtue of the statute in such cases made and provided, the said James Robinson is deemed to have committed the crime of assault with intent to murder, contrary,” &c. The jury rendered a verdict finding the accused guilty as charged in the information; and after overruling the motion of plaintiff in error in arrest of judgment, the court sentenced him to confinement in the State prison at *177hard labor for a period of ten years. From the sentence imposed this writ of error is taken.
It will be necessary to consider only the ruling denying the motion in arrest. This motion was based upon the following grounds, among others, vis: that the information is insufficient in law, form and substance upon which to base a judgment, and that the information does not charge in sufficient language the offence of assault with intent to murder. These grounds are well taken and the court erred in refusing the motion in arrest. Hogan v. State, 42 Fla. 562, 28 South. Rep. 763. See, also, Ruis et al v. State, 43 Fla. 188, 30 South. Rep. 802.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.