State v. Sanders

This was an indictment for an assault upon one George Burgoon, with intent to kill. The assault was committed on the night of the 26th of July, 1876, when Burgoon, who lived about three miles from Carthage, in Jasper county, was in his bed asleep between ten and eleven o’clock at night. That the assault was cowardly and with murderous intent, is not questioned, the only question being whether the defendant was the man who committed it. As the night was dark, the evidence was necessarily mainly circumstantial, and strongly pointed to *203the defendant; there was also a mass-of testimony equally…