Court Opinion

ID: 9727335
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:31:16.594037+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:36.387756
License: Public Domain

FLEMING, Acting P. J.
I concur.
The most serious crime here is the one specified in Penal Code section 245, assault with a deadly weapon or with force likely to produce great bodily injury. As I view it, this crime is committed at the time the assault is launched. Thus, when the bullet is sent on its way or the hatchet is thrown the crime is complete. Technically, the subsequent course of the *423bullet or the hatchet neither adds to nor detracts from the already completed crime under section 245. Thus, whether the bullet strikes or misses its target and the nature of any subsequent batteiy are both immaterial.
Since assault with a deadly weapon is a more serious crime than batteiy, judgment and sentence were properly imposed under section 245.