Shepherd v. State

The appellant was indicted for murder, in the following words:

“ The grand jurors of Sullivan county, in the State of Indiana, good and lawful men, duly and legally empanel-led, charged and sworn to enquire into felonies and certain misdemeanors in and for the body of said county of Sullivan, in the name and by the authority of the State of Indiana, on their oath present, that one Thomas Shepherd, late of said county, on the 10th day of June., A. D. 1875, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and with premeditated malice, kill and murder one…