State v. Brown

The defendant was tried npon an indictment preferred under tlie seventh section of the act of March 14, 1855, in which the' offense charged is set out in the following language :

“ That one Frank Brown, late of the parish of Orleans, on the twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, with force and arms, in the parish of Orleans, aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the First District Court for the parish of Orleans, did, with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a knife, and ■with the intent to commit the crime of murder, and while in the…