Stanfield v. State

Roberts, Chief Justice.

The defendant, being an adult male, is convicted for an aggravated assault upon a child. The facts showed upon the trial that he was the guardian of the child.

The indictment, in anticipation that such would be the proof, perhaps charged the defendant with having beaten the child in a cruel, outrageous, and vicious manner, with intent to injure him.

It states no other specific ground of aggravated assault and battery, as mentioned in the code, (Paschal’s Dig., art. 2150,) than that defendant was an adult male, and that the person beaten was a child.

The court in the charge…