Butler v. State

At the September term of the circuit court of Conway county, 1879, Ephraim Butler was indicted as follows:

“The grand jury, etc., etc., accuse Ephraim Butler of the crime of felony, committed as follows, viz.: The said Ephraim Butler, on - the first day of August, 1879, in the county, etc., aforesaid, in and upon one Green Hill, then and there’ being, with a certain knife, unlawfully, feloniously, willfully and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault, with intent him, the said Green Hill, then and there unlawfully, feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought, to kill and…