Sessions v. State

The indictment herein charges as follows: ‘ ‘ That Erwin Sessions, alias Lightning, on the fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, at and in the County of Hillsborough aforesaid, did unlawfully and feloniously, and from a premeditated design to effect the death of one John Watson make an assault upon the said John Watson, and with a certain pistol which was then and there loaded with gunpowder and leaden bullets and which said pistol he the said Erwin Sessions alias Lightning, then and there had and held in his hands, he, the said Erwin Sessions, alias…