State v. Elborn

This case comes up on a writ of error to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County, and it is admitted by the record, that the only question for our determination is, whether by the Act of Assembly of Maryland, an indictment charging the offence to have been committed by shooting can be sustained, unless it contains a charge or allegation of intent. The indictment in this case is founded on the 122d section of Article 30, of the Code of Public General Laws, and contained three counts. Eirst, for an assault by unlawfully shooting at a certain John W. Downes against the form of the Act of…