McNamara v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of El Paso County. The defendant was convicted upon a charge of assault with intent to rob, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for the term of two years and six months.
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Error to the District Court of El Paso County. The defendant was convicted upon a charge of assault with intent to rob, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for the term of two years and six months. The indictment charges that the defendant, at a certain place and upon a certain date, “being then and there armed with a certain deadly weapon, to wit, a rifle gun, then and there loaded with powder and ball, * * * in and upon one John Simmons * * * did feloniously make an assault, and him, the said John Simmons, then and there, in bodily fear and danger of his life, did feloniously…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Jüstice Goddaed
delivered the opinion of the court.
Among the errors assigned, those that we regard as impor tant, present the following questions :
First: The sufficiency of the indictment.
Second: Did the court err in refusing to charge, as re quested by the defendant, upon the subject of necessary proofs to constitute an assault, under our statute; and in instructing the jury that where a gun is presented at another, within shooting distance, the law conclusively presumes that it is loaded ?
Third: Did the court err in declining to charge, as requested by defendant, upon the subject of…
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