State v. Mahoney

The respondent stands convicted of an assault after trial before a jury. After conviction he moved in arrest of *484judgment because of alleged insufficiency of the indictment which was in these terms: “That Walter C. Mahoney of Northport in said County of Waldo at Northport in said Comity of Waldo, on the thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, on one Elizabeth Palson feloniously did make an assault against the peace of the State” &e.

The objections set forth in the respondent’s exceptions to the overruling of the motion are fourfold.

1. Because…