 | Henry G. Cotton - 1845 - 570 sider
...as shall be deemed just." Gale's Stal., 421. 4 Scam. Rep., 197. 1. Of assault. Crim. Code, Sec. 51. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury on the person of another. An assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporeal... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1888 - 666 sider
...PITTMAN, Judge. fX9 2I7 f»l 4tI5 O. IV. Watkins for appellant. Our statute defines an assault to be an unlawful attempt coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury, etc. Mausf. Dig., sec. 1562. Present ability is necessary at common law to constitute the crime. Roscoe... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - 1857 - 834 sider
...state prison for a term not less than five years, and which may extend to life. ART. 1909, Sec. 49. al of an issue. Акт. 977, Sec. 243. Tho judge or referee may order any property of the j on the person of another, and every person convicted thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1860 - 712 sider
...indictment, or else they ought not to find him guilty. Schnier v. People. 9. The court instructs you, that an assault is an unlawful attempt coupled with a present...commit a violent injury upon the person of another, and that if you believe, from the evidence in this cause, that the deceased assaulted the defendant... | |
 | Idaho (Ter.) - 1864 - 762 sider
...one thousand, nor exceeding five thousand dollars, or to both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 46. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury on the person of another; and every person convicted thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than... | |
 | Idaho - 1864 - 734 sider
...one thousand, nor exceeding five thousand dollars, or to both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 46. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury on the person of another; and every person convicted thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than... | |
 | Montana (Ter.) - 1866 - 792 sider
...the Territorial prison for a term not less than five years, and which may extend to life. SEC. 45. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another, and every person convicted thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - 1871 - 522 sider
...bodily injury " on the person of one George Lambert. The statute of this State defines an assault as " an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability,...commit a violent injury upon the person of another." To constitute, then, the crime of which defendant was convicted, he must have made an unlawful attempt... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1872 - 640 sider
...definition thereof. By an act of December 2d_ 1865, 3 Ind. Stat. 258, the legislature declared, that "an assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability,, to commit a violent injury on the person of another," &c. In every indictment for an aggravated assault or assault and battery,... | |
 | California - 1872 - 698 sider
...punished. 244. Assaults with caustic chemicals. 245. Assaults with deadly weapons. Assault 240. (§ 40.) An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another. NOTE.— Stats. 1856, p. 219, Sec. 5. This is substantiiilly the common law... | |
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An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another. 
