Vance v. State

An indictment was returned against the appellant, the charging part of which was as follows :

“ The grand jury,” etc., “ on their oath do present and charge, that Alexander Vance, late of said county, on the 23d day of June, A. D. 1878, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, in and upon Dellia Weaver, a woman, forcibly and feloniously make an assault, and her, the said Dellia Weaver, then and there, unlawfully, forcibly and against her will, feloniously'ravish and carnally know, contrary,” etc.

A motion to quash the indictment was made and overruled, and exception…