Mayfield v. State

Roberts, Chief Justice.

The indictment charges that the defendant, upon the person of Sandy Robertson, on the first day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy four, in the county of Rusk, in the State of Texas, with malice aforethought, did make an assault, and a certain loaded pistol held at, to, against, in, and upon said Robertson, did shoot off and discharge at him, said Sandy Robertson, with the intent him, the said Robertson, with malice aforethought, to kill and murder.

The exceptions taken before trial were general, and do not seem-to have been ruled on.

The…