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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. "
The Criminal Law of Indiana, with Precedents for Indictments, Informations ... - Page 40
by George Louis Reinhard - 1879 - 555 pages
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A Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in the State of ...

Henry G. Cotton - 1845 - 570 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 49

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1888 - 666 pages
...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...
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Digest of the Laws of California: Containing All Laws of a General Character ...

William H. R. Wood - 1857 - 834 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 23

Illinois. Supreme Court - 1860 - 712 pages
...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 with...
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Laws of the Territory of Idaho

Idaho - 1864 - 734 pages
...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...
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Laws of the Territory of Idaho

Idaho (Ter.) - 1864 - 762 pages
...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...
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Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials of the Territory of Montana Passed at the ...

Montana (Ter.) - 1866 - 792 pages
...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...
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Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada, Volume 6

Nevada. Supreme Court - 1871 - 522 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 34

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 pages
...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,...
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The Penal Code of California, Volume 4

California - 1872 - 698 pages
...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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