Edmondson v. State

Gould, Associate Justice.

Omitting the caption and formal recitation, the indictment in this case is as follows:

“ That on the first day of June, A. D. 1872, in the county of Lamar, in said State of Texas, with force and arms, one Luke Edmondson, in and upon Julia Edmondson, a child, (one unintelligible word appears here that I am not able to make out.—Clerk,) willfully and of his express malice aforethought, did make an assault on the said Julia Edmondson with a certain stick, had and held in his right hand, her, the said Julia Edmondson, unlawfully beat, bruise, and wound; and the said Luke…