State v. Jenkins

This is an appeal by the State. The defendant was indicted in the court below for an assault and battery with intent to commit the crime of murder.

The charging part of the indictment is as follows : “ That one George Jenkins, late of said county, on the 3d day of February, 1889, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, in a rude, insolent and angry manner, touch Charles Wells, wdth the intent then and there, him, the said Charles Wells, feloniously, wilfully, purposely, and with premeditated malice to kill and murder, contrary to the form of the statute in such case…