Richardson v. State

W. C. Richardson, the appellant, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of conviction of an assault with a deadly weapon, alleged to have been committed in Apache county on or about May 23, 1927.

He first says the whole trial was without jurisdiction because the information did not state facts sufficient to constitute a public offense. The information, stripped of all qualifying adjectives and jurisdictional allegations of time and place, is as follows:

“The defendant did make an assault in and upon the person of one Albert Thompson with a certain deadly weapon, to wit, a loaded rifle.”

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