Legal Opinion
State v. Copeland
Washington Supreme Court
Decided December 16, 1911No. 9607PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Ronald, J., entered January 3, 1911, upon a trial and conviction of assault with a weapon likely to do bodily harm.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
The defendant was charged, by information filed in the superior court for King county, with the crime of assault in the first degree as follows:
“He, said William A. Copeland, in the County of King, State of Washington, on the 12th day of September, A. D. 1910, did wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously make an assault upon one Walter C. Knapp with a firearm, to wit, with a shot gun then and there loaded with shot, which he, said William A. Copeland, then and there had and held and did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, with said shot gun, shoot at, toward and into the body of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- State v. AcklesWashington Supreme Court · 1894
- White v. Territory of WashingtonWashington Supreme Court · 1890
- State v. SniderWashington Supreme Court · 1903
- State v. KleinWashington Supreme Court · 1898
3Cited by5 opinions
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