Supreme Court of Arkansas May 15, 1884 (State v. Tidwell)

Smith, J.

mentEct' w^hdeaViy weapon. • The indictment charged that Tidwell “ did unlawfully make an assault iu and upon one James Davis with a deadly weapon with the intent to inflict upon the person of him, the said James Davis, a great bodily injury when there was no considerable provocation,confraiy to the form of the statute and against the peace and dignity of the State “etc — To this