Shaw v. State

This was a prosecution for an assault with intent to kill and murder, under the 30th section of the 3d chapter of the Penal Code. — (Clay’s Dig. 416, § 30.)

The indictment, which appears to have been returned into court by the grand jury on the 18th day of Sept. 1850, contains two counts. By the first, the grand jury “ upon their oath present that Alexander Shaw, sen., and Alexander Shaw, jr., late of said (Pike) county, on the fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the county aforesaid, in and upon Stephen Eiland, feloniously, wilfully, and of…