Campbell v. People

■Cooley, Ch. J:

The plaintiff in error was convicted of an assault with intent to ravish, upon an information which charged only the commission of the principal offense. One of the errors .assigned is, that the information does not support the conviction.

The previous rulings of this court in People v. McDonald, 9 Mich., 150, and Hanna v. People, 19 Mich., 316, are decisive of the point made. In each of those cases it was decided that under an indictment charging a' specific ■offense it was competent for the jury to find the respondent .guilty of a lesser offense included in it. The lesser…