Boswell v. State

On the 2d day of April, 1886, the grand jury of Huntington county returned an indictment into the Huntington Circuit Court against Andrew J. Boswell, for an *48alleged assault and battery upon one Butler. The defendant filed a special plea, the substance of which was, that at a date prior to the returning of the indictment, he had been charged in an affidavit, filed before a justice of the peace of that county, with the commission of the same identical offence, with which he stood charged in the indictment, and that upon a warrant duly issued he had been arrested and •taken before the justice,…