Fields v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the district court of Delaware county under an indictment the charging part of which is as follows:

“He, the said Bunk Fields, then and there being, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause, commit an assault upon the person of Una Fields, by then and there having and holding a certain sharp and dangerous weapon, to wit, a large knife, and by then and there with such sharp and dangerous weapon assaulting, striking, and stabb.'ng her, the said Una Fields, contrary…