State v. Cummings

I. The indictment is challenged. So far as material it read as follows: “ Said .Mike Cummings did unlawfully, willfully, maliciously, and with specific intent then and there to inflict great bodily injury, make an assault upon one Lewis Carr, and did then and there, with specific intent to inflict a great bodily injury, strike, beat, bruise, and otherwise maltreat the said Lewis Can1.” That this was sufficient, see State v. Carpenter, 23 Iowa, 506. The indictment is in the language of the statute, which so far individuates the offense that nothing more need be stated.

II. In the third…