State v. Hamre

Defendant was convicted of the crime of threatening the commission of a felony in violation of OBS 161.330 which provides as follows:

“Any person who threatens * * * by speech, writing, printing, drawing, or by any other method, the commission of a felony, shall be guilty of a crime * *

Defendant filed a motion for arrest of judgment upon the ground that the information on which he was tried did not state a crime. The motion was granted by the trial court and the state appealed. The charge made by the information was as follows:

“That said Edwin J. Hamre * * * having showed to one Betty Lou…