McGahagin v. State

On the 13th day of November, 1878, the defendant, Joshua L. McGahagin, was indicted by the grand jury of Marion county, which said indictment recites that the said defendant, “on the second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, with force and arms, at and in the county of Marion aforesaid, wilfully and maliciously did shoot, disfigure and -injure one ox of the value of thirty dollars, of the property, goods and chattels of,” &c.

There is but this one count in the indictment, and upon that the defendant was tried at the spring term of said court,…