Tatum v. United States

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellant Carrie E. Tatum was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, on an indictment charging that she “did make an assault in and upon one Dorothy M. Rag-land, and her * * * did maim and disfigure, and that the said Carrie E. Tatum, in making the assault aforesaid, did cast and throw on and upon the said Dorothy M. Ragland, a certain corrosive liquid compound commonly * * * called lye.” The Code of the District provides that “every person convicted of an assault with intent to commit mayhem, or of an assault with a dangerous weapon, shall be sentenced to…