Merchant v. State

Plaintiff in error, Huse Merchant, was convicted at the April, 1914, .term of the District Court of Stephens county on a charge of assault with intent to kill and his punishment fixed at a year in the state penitentiary.

The information upon which, the judgment is based charges that:

“The said I-Iuse Merchant . . .; did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, and with malice aforethought, and with a premeditated design to effect the death of one Bill Green, did then and there, with a certain automatic pistol, loaded with powder and balls, being a dangerous weapon, likely to produce death, which…