Brantley v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Carbon County,- Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. Matthew G. Brantley waa tried in the district court upon an information charging that on the 24th day of April a. d. 1899, the defendant “ did unlawfully, willfully, maliciously, feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, then and there having the present ability to do so, attempt then and there to commit a violent injury on the person of one James Lavin, then and there being, and did…
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Error to the District Court, Carbon County,- Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. Matthew G. Brantley waa tried in the district court upon an information charging that on the 24th day of April a. d. 1899, the defendant “ did unlawfully, willfully, maliciously, feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, then and there having the present ability to do so, attempt then and there to commit a violent injury on the person of one James Lavin, then and there being, and did unlawfully, willfully, maliciously, feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, in and upon the body of him, the said…
1Opinion of the Court
CorN, Justice.
The defendant (plaintiff in error) was tried upon an information charging him with an assault and battery with *106intent to commit murder in the first degree, and found guilty of an assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree.
1. Plaintiff in error contends that it was error for the court to instruct the jury that under the charge as set out in the information they might find the defendant guilty of the principal offense charged, or of an assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree, or of an assault with an intent to commit manslaugher; that the specific…
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