State v. Bankhead

The defendant was indicted under the 28th section of art. 8 of the act concerning crimes and punishments. (R. C. 1845. p. 404.) The indictment contained four counts, but the jury found the defendant guilty only under the third, which is in these words: “ And the jurors aforesaid, on their oaths aforesaid, further present, that the said Archer Bank-head, on the day and year aforesaid, and at the said county of Pike, did disturb a congregation of people then and there met for religious worship, by then and there making an assault upon one John E. Hedges, jr., so near to the place of worship of…