State v. Penland

At the January term, 1905, of the Henry County Circuit Court, the prosecuting attorney of Henry county filed an information in open court, based upon an affidavit of J. H. Bailey and duly verified, wherein he charged that the defendant, on or about the 3rd of December, 1904, willfully and feloniously and with a deadly weapon, likely to produce death, to-wit, a large revolving pistol, which he then and there held in his hand, made an assault in and upon one J. H. Bailey and with the revolving pistol aforesaid did strike and beat the said Bailey in and upon the head and face of him the said…