State v. Mix

The appellant stands convicted before the Criminal Court of New Orleans, upon the first count of an indictment charging him with two separate and distinct offences-. The prosecution is based on a statute approved the 7th February-, 1829, § 4. 1 Bul. & Cur. Digest, 270.

The first count in the -indictment charges the accused, with -having unlawfully and feloniously committed an assault, with a certain dangerous weapon commonly called a life-protector, upon one George C. Brower ; the second, with having unlawfull.ycom-*550mitted an assault upon George C. Brower, with intent to kill him, the said…