Ervington v. People

The plaintiff in error, Frank Ervington, was indicted by the grand jury of Champaign county for an assault with intent to murder. The indictment contained two counts. In the first it was charged “that Frank Ervington, late of said county and State, on the tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, at and in the county and State aforesaid, with a deadly weapon, a knife, which the said Frank Ervington held in his hand, did unlawfully and willfully make an assault in and upon John Scott, in the peace of the people then and there being, with an intent…