Dukes v. State

Indictment, of which a copy follows:

“ The state of Indiana, Clinton county. In the Clinton Circuit Court, October term, 1858.

1. “ The grand jurors for the county of Clinton, in the state of Indiana, upon their oath, charge that Samuel Dukes, late of said county, on the twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, at the county aforesaid, feloniously, purposely, and maliciously, but without premeditation, did kill and murder John G. White, a human being, by then and there feloniously, purposely, and maliciously, but without premeditation,…