Rawls v. State

The charging part of the indictment reads as follows: That the defendant did “unlawfully, feloniously and of his malice aforethought and with a certain pistol, the same being a weapon likely to produce death, in and upon one Leola Edwards, a human being in the peace of the State then and there being, made an assault with the intent the said Leola Edwards to kill and murder, and did then and there with said weapon and with the intent aforesaid shoot and seriously wound the said- -, contrary to the laws of said State," etc. (Italics ours.) The defendant demurred generally to the indictment on…