Smith v. State

Plaintiffs in error, defendants in the court below, were informed against and convicted of the offense of an assault with the intent to commit a robbery. The sufficiency of the information to support a judgment of conviction is challenged on the ground that the intent with which the assault was committed is not sufficiently and specifically charged in the information. The charging portion of the information is “that on the 22d day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and three, John D. Smith and James Gaughan, late' of the county of Douglas aforesaid, in the county of…