State v. Foster
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Union; J. B. Crow, Judge. Jim Foster and Smith Canterbury were convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon and inflicting a wound less than mayhem, and from the conviction and sentence they appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, C. J.
Defendants prosecute this appeal from a conviction and sentence under an indictment which charges that they “did willfully, maliciously, feloniously, and unlawfully make an assault upon one Joe Cart-ledge with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a knife, and did then and there inflict a wound less than mayhem upon him, the said Joe Cartledge, contrary,” etc.
*523[1] The indictment was, no doubt, drawn to charge the offense of inflicting a wound less than mayhem with a dangerous weapon, as denounced by section 794 of the Revised Statutes, but the pleader incorporated therein the words .“make an assault…
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