Porter v. People

Walter A. Porter was indicted in the circuit court of Jackson county for an assault upon Nora Blackwood with intent to commit a rape, and at the trial the jury found him guilty, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of one year. Sentence having been pronounced upon him in accordance with the verdict, he now brings the record to this court by writ of error.

The first proposition submitted by counsel for the defendant is, that the indictment is insufficient, in that it omits the use of the word “forcibly” in its description of the offense which the defendant…