The name given to* the statute 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, which provided for the punishment of assaults with intent to maim or disfigure a person. It wan so named from its beiug occasioned by an as-sault on Sir John Coventry in the street. 4 Bl. Comm. 207; State v. Cody, 18 or. 506, 23 Pac. 891
