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7 Tex. Ct. App. 329

Wimberly v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided July 1, 1879

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1879-07-01

<p>Appeal from the District Court of Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Burkhart.</p> <p>The case is succinctly but clearly stated in the opinion.</p>

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Relies on State v. Patrick

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Decided 1879-07-01

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Clark, J.

¶1The defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment should have been sustained. The indictment charges an assault by the defendant and others upon the person of one Alex. McConnico with a pistol, and made feloniously and upon express malice ; and further charges the discharge of the pistol at the said McConnico, “with the wilful and felonious intent and of their express malice aforethought to kill and murder,” but fails to state whom they intended to murder. This cannot be left to inference, but must be expressly alleged. Whart. Prec, of Indict., sect. 242; The State v. Nations, 31 Texas, 561; The State v. Patrick, 3 Wis. 812.

¶2The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded. Reversed and remanded.

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