Hughes v. State

Appellant was convicted of assault and battery and fined $100 pursuant to the verdict of the jury.

Prosecution was begun in the city court of Fort Wayne. There was an appeal from a conviction to the circuit court. The prosecution was based upon an affidavit which, omitting the caption and signatures, is as follows:

“William Todd swears that George W. Hughes and Mattie C. Hughes, on the — day of August, A. D. 1936, at the County of Allen and in the State of Indiana, did then and there in a rude, insolent and angry manner unlawfully touch, beat and strike the person of one William Todd and Maud…