Johnson v. State

BAKER, JUDGE.

The appellant was indicted and convicted in the district court of Franklin County and his punishment assessed at six months confinement in the penitentiary, for the offense of an assault with prohibited weapons alleged to have been knuckles made of metal or hard substance, upon Edwin Koonce.

The indictment in this case appears to have been based upon section 1597, page 940 of Branch’s P. C., which is as follows:

“If any person shall wilfully commit an assault or an assault and battery upon another with *** knuckles made of any metal or made of any hard substance, **** while the…