Wood v. State

Appellant was adjudged guilty of manslaughter, and from that judgment prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment charges that, “on the 9th day of March, 1883, at the county of Allen and State of Indiana, Commodore Wood did then and there feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, unlawfully and feloniously kill and murder Charles Shelner, by then and there feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, unlawfully, feloniously, striking, cutting, stabbing and mortally wounding the said Charles Shelner with a knife, which the said Commodore Wood then and there had and held in his…