SOLOMON BLACK

Grand jurors for the state being duly summoned, elected, impaneled, sworn, and charged to inquire for the body of the county aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid present that Solomon Black late of said county laborer not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, on the eleventh day of March in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, with force and arms, at , to wit in the county aforesaid in and upon one James Black in the peace of God and the state then and there being feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought with deliberation, premeditation and with the intent to commit murder in the first degree did make an assault and that the said Solomon Black, with a certain hammer of the value of fifty cents which he the said Solomon Black in his right hand then and there had and held, the said James Black in and upon the left side of the head, near the left of the temple of him the said James Black, then and there feloniously, willfully, and with premeditation deliberately and of his malice aforethought did strike and wound giving to the said James Black then and there with the hammer aforesaid, in and upon the said left side of the head, near the left temple of him the said James Black one mortal wound of the breadth of one half of one inch and of the depth of three inches of which...