State v. Kiger

Miller, Judge:

The defendant was tried in the circuit court upon an indictment charging him with unlawfully assaulting one George Snyder, found guilty by a jury, and assessed a fine of fifty dollars and sentenced to ten days imprisonment in the county jail.

By his two special pleas the defendant alleged that the offense for which he was indicted was the same for which he had been /tried and convicted before the mayor of the town of Smithfield, namely an assault and battery upon George Snyder and Austin Clark, within the limits of the said town of Smithfield, and that he was fined five dollars…