State v. Steele

Citations

• 83 Wash. 470
• 145 P. 581
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 710

Syllabus

<p>Indictment and Infobmation — Sufficiency—Included Offenses —Assault—Degrees. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2415, providing that every person committing an assault without amounting to an assault in either the first or second degrees shall he guilty of assault in the third degree, an information charging assault with intent to commit a felony, to wit, a rape, which is a charge of second-degree assault, is sufficient to sustain a conviction for the lesser offense of third degree assault, without specifically defining the crime of assault in the third degree.</p>