State v. Louther

Defendant was charged by information, as follows, with the crime of assault in the first degree:

“That the said Violas E. Louther in the county of Benton, State of Washington, on the 27th day of July, 1944, did then and there being unlawfully and feloniously, with intent to kill a human being, assault a human being, to-wit: D. J. LeMarr, with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a knife, and did thereby inflict grievous bodily injury upon the body of said D. J. LeMarr, ...”

The statute (Rem. Rev. Stat., §2413 [P. C. § 8758]) defines the crime of assault in the first degree as follows:

“Every person who,…