State v. Wood

Citations

• 19 S.D. 260
• 103 N.W. 25
• 1905 S.D. LEXIS 34

Syllabus

<p>Under-Rev. Pen. Code, § 791, declaring the punishment .for .persons who attempt to commit a crime, and in such attempt do any act toward the commission thereof, but. who fail or are prevented or intercepted in its . perpetration, one who threatened to kill another and went to get a razor, but was induced to abandon his design before procuring the same, could not be held guilty of an assualt with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm.</p>