People v. Crooms

Appellant, by information, was charged in one count with violation of section 244 of the Penal Code, and in a second count with the commission of mayhem. The first count of the information charged that .appellant “did will fully, unlawfully and feloniously and maliciously place and throw upon the person of one Wesley Brewer a certain caustic chemical, to wit, lye, with the intent then and there to injure the flesh and disfigure the body of the said Wesley Brewer.” The second count charged that appellant ‘‘did willfully, unlawfully, feloniously and maliciously disable, disfigure and render…