State v. Harris

Appellants were indicted at the October term, 1859, of the Laclede Circuit Court, for a felonious assault upon one Martin M. Nulty; Harris as principal in the first, and the other defendants as principals in the second degree.

The indictment contains two counts, both drawn under sec. 35, art. 2, of the act relating to crimes and punishments, which reads as follows :

“ Every person who shall, on purpose and of malice aforethought, shoot at or stab another, or assault or boat another with a deadly weapon, or by any other means or force likely to produce death, or great bodily harm, with intent to…