Merritt v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Assault with intent to murder: sentence three years imprisonment.

The minute entry of the judgment reads in pertinent part as follows:

“This is the 14th day of August, 1972, in open Court came the State of Alabama, by its District Attorney, and the Defendant in his own proper person and with his attorney and the defendant having theretofore on the 4th day of August, 1972, been arraigned on the indictment in this case charging him with the offense of Assault with intent to Murder to which said indictment on arraignment the defendant plead not guilty and not guilty by…