Francis v. State

The grand jury of Hot Spring County, Arkansas, returned the following indictment against appellant at the regular January, 1934, term thereof:

“The grand jury of Hot Spring County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuses Dewey Francis of the crime of assault with intent to kill, committed as follows, to-wit: The said Dewey Francis in the county and State aforesaid, on the 7th day of August, 1933, in and upon one J. R. Sirratt, then and there being, with a dangerous weapon, to-wit: a knife, with which the said Dewey Francis was then and there armed and which was then…