¶1 ON MOTION TOR REHEARING.
¶2 Counsel move for a rehearing of this case and a reconsideration of our holding that “The indictment was not subject to special demurrer because it failed to give the exact name of the gas which the defendant was alleged to have released. Under the facts of the case, as set out in the indictment, the allegation that the name of the gas was not known to the grand jurors was sufficient.” And counsel cite in support of their motion Walker v. State, 124 Ga. 440 (52 S. E. 738), with the request that this court differentiate that case from Sims v. State, 118 Ga. 761 (supra), cited by Judge MacIntyre in his specially concurring opinion. The opinion in the Walker case was based on Monday’s case, 32 Ga. 672, Johnson’s case, 92 Ga. 38 (17 S. E. 974), and Johnson’s case, 90 Ga. 441 (16 S. E. 92). In each of those four cases the accused was indicted for the offense of- assault with intent to murder, while in the Sims case and the instant case the defendant was indicted for an assault and battery only, and Cobb, J., speaking for a united court in the Sims ease, said: “This form of indictment for assault and battery was adopted by our criminal pleaders in the early history of this State, and has been uniformly followed to the present time [citing authorities]. Certainly an indictment which would be sufficient to withstand the scrutiny of a common-law pleader ought to be held sufficiently technical in the twentieth century. The rules laid down by Mr. Justice Lump-kin in Johnson v. State, 90 Ga. 441 (supra), in reference to the 'requirements to be met in framing an indictment for assault with intent to murder, have never, either at common law or in this State, been applied to indictments for assault and battery.”
¶3 Rehearing denied.
¶4 concurring specially. “An assault is an attempt to commit a violent injury on the person of another.” Code, § 26-1401. “Battery is the unlawful beating of another, and is a misdemeanor.” Code, § 26-1408. “An indictment for assault and battery, which charges that the accused made an assault [or attempt to commit a violent injury] upon a named person and him did unlawfully beat, is sufficiently specific in reference to the assault and beating, though it does not allege what acts constituted the assault nor in what manner the beating was done.” Sims v. State, 118 Ga. 761 (45 S. E. 621). If, as in the instant ease, the pleader, instead of using the word “ assault,” substitutes therefor the identical words of the Code in the definition of an assault, as shown by the brackets above, to wit, “attempt to commit a violent injury” upon a named person, I think the pleader is, nevertheless, but following the form of indictment for an assault and battery which was followed by our criminal pleaders in the early history of this State and which has been uniformly followed to the present time, which is that the accused, on a given date in a named county, “then and there unlawfully and with force and arms, in and upon [a named person], in the peace of said State then and there being, did make an assault, and him, the said [named person], unlawfully and with force and arms did beat, contrary to the laws of said State.” Sims v. State, supra.
¶5*453 While the indictment misnames the crime charged as an assault, when it should have been named an assault and battery, yet the charging part of the indictment, which alleges the facts that constituted the essential elements of an assault and battery, is in proper form, as it follows common-law precedents as well as precedents which have been approved in this country for more than one hundred years. Sims v. State, supra.
¶6 I think the charging part of the indictment, which seeks to set out the essential elements of the offense of assault and battery, is in proper form just as it stands.