Davis v. State

— The following affidavit, after the proper caption, was filed in the court below, viz.:

“ Casper Ulmer, being duly sworn, on his oath says that Patrick II. Davis, John Wilber, and John Doe, whose true name is to the affiant unknown, did, on the 30th day of January, A. D. 1880, at the county of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, feloniously, violently and forcibly make an assault upon this affiant, and did then and there and thereby unlawfully, feloniously, violently and forcibly, by violence and putting in fear, steal, take and carry away from the person of this affiant one United States…