Williams v. State

Carter, J. :

At the Spring term, 1898, of the Circuit Court of Walton county an indictment was presented against *296plaintiff in error charging him with an assault with intent to murder one Gus Drummond. The indictment alleged that the assault was committed by the accused without authority of law, of his malice aforethought and from a premeditated design to' effect Drummond’s death, with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a pistol loaded with gunpowder and leaden bullets, by the discharge of which he was alleged to have inflicted upon the person of Drummond two painful and dangerous wounds, with intent,…