Green v. State

In April, 1879, the grand jury in and for Alachua county presented to the Circuit Court of that county an indictment against this plaintiff in error containing two counts, one for assault with a dangerous weapon with' intent to murder, the other for assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to rob.

On the 19th of November, 1879, Green was tried upon the indictment, and found guilty of “assault with intent to rob,” and sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the State prison for the term of twenty years.

After the evidence in the case was closed,"the counsel for *175the prisoner “asked the court…