Court Opinion

ID: 4906334
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:58:13.814653+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:08.299860
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Hurt, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of an aggravated assault, upon an information charging that the assault was aggravated because made with a deadly weapon, to wit, an ax. Ho other ground of aggravation is even hinted at in the information.
At the request of the State, the learned judge presiding gave this charge to the jury: “The use of any dangerous weapon, or the semblance thereof, in an angry or threatening manner, with an intent to alarm another, and under circumstances calculated to effect that object, comes within the meaning of an *133assault. When a dangerous weapon is used under the above mentioned circumstances, the ability to effect injury is not necessary.”
, This charge has no application whatever to the aggravated assault alleged in the information„ It is an abandonment of the information altogether, so far as the ground of aggravation is concerned, and this conviction, if the jury were influenced by the charge, was without allegation to support it. The charge being radically wrong, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

Opinion delivered May 3, 1884