Walker v. State

The indictment charged the accused with the offense of assault with intent to murder, for that they did on a day named, “unlawfully and with force and arms, with certain pieces of iron in their hands held, feloniously and of their malice aforethought, make an assault in and upon the person of T. G-. Hudson,” etc. The accused demurred to the indictment generally, and on the special grounds, in effect, that it was not alleged that the “pieces of iron” referred to in the indictment were weapons likely to produce death, and that the offense charged against them was not set out with sufficient…