Respublica v. Langcake

Indictment for maihem and assault and battery, removed by the defendants from the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Philadelphia county.

The indictment consisted of four counts, the two first being under the act of assembly passed on the 22d April 1794.

The first count stated, that Eangcake contriving and intending Jonathan Carmalt a citizen of Pennsylvania to maim and disfigure, with force and arms, &c. on purpose and of his *415malice aforethought and by lying in wait on the 13th August 1794, at, &c. unlawfully and feloniously did make an assault on the said Jonathan with a cart whip of the value of…