People v. Chapman

An indictment was returned by a grand jury in the circuit court of Scott county, charging the plaintiff in error with having made an assault with a deadly weapon upon one Hubert Gregory. The circuit clerk certified said indictment to the county court of said county for trial, and upon a trial the plaintiff in error was convicted and a judgment was rendered upon the verdict of a jury and the cause is in this court upon a writ of error to said county court of Scott county.

The indictment in its two counts charged the plaintiff in error with having made an assault upon the person of one Hubert…