Welch v. State

The indictment in this record charges, with proper formality, that on the 4th day of January, 1885, William Welch did feloniously, etc., kill and murder one Louis Fedder, by then and there feloniously, etc., “striking him, the said Louis Fedder, upon his head, with a dangerous and deadly weapon, to wit, a large, heavy club, which he, the said William Welch, had and held in his hands.”

The only objection made to the indictment is that by the omission of the words “ then and there,” after the name of the accused as last above set out, it fails to allege that the defendant had the club in his…