Siebert v. State

The indictment against the appellant in this case contained two counts. In the first count it was charged “ that, on the 13th day of October, A. D. 1883, at the county of Allen and State of Indiana, William Siebert did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, purposely, and with premeditated malice, attempt to commit a violent injury upon the person of John Tonges alias Johann Tonges, he, the said William Siebert, then and there having the present ability to commit a violent injury upon the person of the said John Tonges alias Johann Tonges, and him, the said John Tonges. alias Johann Tonges,…