Chandler v. State

The appellant was tried in the circuit court, a verdict of guilty returned against him by the jury fixing his punishment at seven years imprisonment in the State prison north, on a plea of not guilty to an information, the charging part of which is as follows:

“That Sherman Chandler and Jacob Davis, on or about the 5th day of August, 1894, at the county of Hamilton and State of Indiana, did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, commit a violent injury upon the person of Bird Davis, by then and there purposely, and with premeditated malice, shooting the said Bird Davis with a certain…