State v. Bohn

Citations

• 19 Wash. 36
• 52 P. 325
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 312

Syllabus

<p>ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO COMMIT CRIME — SUFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION.</p> <p>Under the rule that it is not essential -to use the words of the-statute if others of like import are used, an information charging defendant with making an unlawful and felonius assault is equivalent to charging it as made “in a rude, insolent and angry manner.”</p> <p>When an information alleges a consummated assault in the-attempt to commit a crime, a further allegation that defendant had -the present ability to carry the attempt into execution is surplusage and not necessary to he alleged.</p>