State v. O'Mally
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Fayette District Court. The defendant was indicted for threatening verbally to kill Zenana Staats and F. S. Wood, with the intention of thereby causing them to leave their home against their will. Upon a trial he was convicted, and fined in the sum of ten dollars. He now appeals to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, 3".
1. criminal law: pleading. I. Counsel for the defendant insist that the indictment is bad for the reason that, as it does not set out the threatening words used by defendant, it alleges a jgggj conclusion. The language of the indictment is, that defendant did “wilfully and maliciously verbally threaten to kill and murder Zenana Staats and P. S. Wood.” This is not the allegation of a legal conclusion, but of the act of defendant, and is sufficient without setting out the words used. The words of the defendant were not the gist of the offense, which is found in the intention of…
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