Young v. State

The appellant herein is appealing from a conviction in the Circuit Court of Allen County of the offense of assault and battery with intent to commit a felony: manslaughter.

Prosecution was commenced on the basis of an affidavit charging appellant with the above stated crime:

The affidavit (omitting the caption and in its substantive parts) reads as follows:

(That on or about the day in question)

“. . . at the County of Allen and in the State of Indiana, said Defendant, William Young, a male person over the age of twenty-one years did then and there unlawfully and feloniously, and in a rude,…