McVey v. State

Ryan, C.

The information upon which plaintiff in error was tried in the district court of Douglas county contained two counts. These were alike, except that in the first the felonious intent charged was to kill. In the second the intent was to wound. With plaintiff in error there was tried George Bradshaw, who was acquitted, as was also plaintiff in error on the first count, but lie was convicted on the second. The offense in this count was thus charged: “That the said Willie McVey and George Bradshaw, on the said 21st day of May, 1897, then and there being in the county and state aforesaid,…