Bruce v. State

Prosecution for an assault and battery. The case was submitted to the Court for trial, upon an agreement of facts set out in the record. Bruce, the defendant, was convicted.

The facts agreed are these: “The defendant, on the 6th of August, 1854, at the county of Decatur, committed an assault and battery on the body of one Demetrius Owens. The information in the present case, in which he is charged with that offense, was filed on the 9th of August, and on that day a warrant for his arrest was issued to the sheriff of Ripley county, where he then resided *207and still resides. On the 18th of August,…