State v. Van Zelfden

OVERTON, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a verdict of guilty and a sentence of one year in the penitentiary for wounding less than mayhem. The bill of information, upon which he was tried, reads, as relates to the charge, that defendant “did wilfully and maliciously, with a dangerous weapon, to wit a pistol, inflict a wound less than mayhem upon one B. Bertrand Ivanek.”

The bill charges the offense denounced by Act No. 17 of 1888, amending and re-enacting section 791 of the Revised Statutes. The act reads as follows:

“Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously, with a dangerous weapon, or with…