State v. Bradford
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twentieth Judicial District Court, parish of Assumption. Knoblock, J. An information under Sec. 791, Revised Statutes, charging the defendant with “ wilfully and feloniously” shooting, is deficient, and should have charged the shooting to have been done wilfully, feloniously and maliciously, or with malice aforethought, with the intent laid.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of ’the Court was delivered by
Poché, J.
Appellant complains that the information under which he was tried and convicted of shooting with intent to commit murder, is defective, in not containing the words “ with malice aforethought ” or “ maliciously,” in the description of the manner of shooting.
The information charges that appellant and two others “ did wilfully and feloniously shoot and wound with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a pistol, with the intent then and there the said Alomo Lacroix feloniously, wilfully and of their malice aforethought to kill and murder,” etc.
The question…
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