Watkins v. State

This was a prosecution against the appellant, upon affidavit and information filed in the circuit court, on the 10th day of April, 1879, for an assault and battery alleged to have been by him committed on the 16th day of February, 1879, at Gibson county, on one Leño ra Watkins.

To the information the appellant answered by a special plea in bar, setting uj) his former conviction of and for the same offence, by and before a justice of the peace of Gibson county, on the 5th day of April, 1879. To this special plea or answer, the State, by its attorney, replied in two paragraphs, to wit:

1. A…