Bard v. State

Jackson, Judge.

This was an indictment for an assault with intent to murder. The indictment charged that the defendant, John Bard, “with force and arms, and a knife, a weapon likely to produce death, in and upon one William A. Spencer, in the peace of the state, did make an assault with intent unlawfully to kill the said Spencer with malice aforethought, the said Bard then and there being a person of sound memory and discretion, and with said knife the said Bard did then and there unlawfully cut, stab and wound the said Spencer.” The jury returned a verdict for an assault, and the defendant…