Lancaster v. State

The defendant, John Lancaster, was indicted in the circuit court of Maury county on the charge of murder in the first degree. The indictment (omitting the formal parts of it) is in words as follows:

“John Lancaster . . . unlawfully, feloniously, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, and of his malice aforethought did make an assault and battery upon the body of one Robert N. Blackburn (col.) with a certain dangerous and deadly weapon, to wit, an iron rod, and him, the said *23Robert N. Blackburn, be, the said John Lancaster, then and there did unlawfully feloniously, willfully, deliberately,…