Barnett v. State

— Transferred from the Supreme Court. The appellants were prosecuted in the Knox Circuit Court upon affidavit and information. The affidavit, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows: “That at and in the county of Knox and State of Indiana on or about the 23rd day of July, 1898, William H. Harrison, Joseph A. Barnett, William Edwards, John Bell, Jacob Tucker, Jacob O. Hicks, Dennis Comrad, James Comrad, and James McGarrah did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, and purposely, and with premeditated malice, in a rude, insolent, *600and angry manner touch one J ohn Silence, with…