State v. Sweeney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J.:

Pat Sweeney was given a preliminary examination upon a warrant in which he was charged with having committed a felonious assault upon Will*266iam Payne, with intent to maim and kill him, and was bound over to the district court. The information filed against him charged that Sweeney did intentionally, unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, purposely, and of deliberate malice aforethought, assault and beat one William Payne with a deadly weapon, with great force and violence, which was likely to produce death, with the intention then and there to…