Danenhoffer v. State

This was a prosecution against the appellant Aloys Danenhoffer, for an assault and battery alleged to have been committed by him on one Henry Roell.

The prosecution was commenced before a justice of the peace of Ripley county," Indiana, upon the affidavit of one Henry Clark, wherein it was charged, in substance, that the appellant, on the 13th day of November, 1879, at said Ripley county, “ did, in a rude, insolent and angry manner, unlawfully touch one Henry Roell, contrary,” etc.

The appellant waived an arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge contained in said affidavit,…