Higgins v. State

The prosecuting attorney filed the following information, the formal parts of which are omitted:

“I, Boyd Tackett, prosecuting attorney within and for the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the State of Arkansas of which Pike county is a part, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, on oath, accuse the defendant, Jim Higgins, of the crime of assault with intent to kill committed as follows, to-wit: The said defendant on the 3d day of July, 1941, in Pike county, Arkansas, did unlawfully, willfully, knowingly and feloniously and with.malice aforethought make an assault in and upon one…