Legal Opinion
Hawksley v. Peace
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 22, 1916PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Trespass. Heard on exceptions of defendant and overruled.
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.
This is an action of trespass for assault and battery. The declaration contains two counts, the first of which alleges "that the defendant on to wit, the 7th day of June, A. D. 1914, in Cranston, in said county,” . . . “was then and there possessed of a gun loaded with gun powder and leaden bullets, which said gun, so loaded he, the defendant, then and there held at or towards the plaintiff, and then and there with force and arms with one of said bullets fired by him from said gun struck and wounded the plaintiff in his left leg.” The second count charges assault and battery without…
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