Bruner v. State

The appellant was indicted for manslaughter, at the September term, 1877, of the court below.

Omitting the merely formal and introductory matter of this indictment, it charged, in substance, that the appellant, “ on the 11th day of September, A. D. 1877, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously kill one Bernard Koch, without malice, but voluntarily upon a sudden heat, by then and there striking and injuring him, the said Bernard Koch, upon the head with a stake, which he, the said Leo Bruner, then and there had and held in his hands, of which striking…