People v. Savercool

Foote, C.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to an information and discharging the defendant. The part of the information material to this controversy is as follows: —

“ William W. Savercool is accused by the district attorney of the said Plumas County, by this information, of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon, committed as follows: —

“ The said William W. Savercool, on .the twenty-first day of January, A. D. 1889, at the said county of Plumas, did commit an assault with a deadly weapon, to wit, a revolver, upon the person of one Elijah Nicholson, contrary to the…