Childs v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lcmrmee CH/ramt Goivrt. Hon. B. H. Neely, Circuit Judge. Tbe facts charged in an affray, do not include those necessary to put a party on defence of an assault and battery, for he is not apprised whom, he has assaulted, nor that he has beaten any body.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice WatKINS
The indictment in this case charged that the appellant and three other persons, on, &c., at, &c., “with force and arms, being assembled together and arrayed in a warlike manner, there and then in a public highway, there situate, unlawfully did make an affray, by then and there lighting, to the great terror and disturbance of the people there being,” &c. The defendants being tried separately, the jury found each of them guilty of an assault and battery, and the appellant was accordingly sentenced to pay the fine assessed against him by the verdict. He moved in arrest of judgment, which was…
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