Skaggs v. State

In this case, the indictment against the appellant, Skaggs, contained two counts. The first count charged that the appellant, on the 27th day of August, 1885, at Montgomery county, Indiana, “did then and there, unlawfully and feloniously, in a rudo, insolent and angry manner, touch, push, strike and choke one Flora May Ennis, a woman, with intent then and there-and thereby, her, the said Flora May Ennis, feloniously, forcibly and against her will, to ravish and carnally know.” The second count of the indictment differs from the first count only in this, that the words “ forcibly and against…