Hart v. State

The appellant in this case was indicted for an assault upon one Rolan Persons, with “intent to kill and murder the said Rolan Person.” We think the omission to add the final letter to the name of Persons in the closing part of the indictment not such a change in the name as would vitiate the indictment; particularly as the name was frequently used and correctly spelled in *383the former part of the indictment, and then, finally, the party assaulted was referred to as “the said Rolan Person.’’ There can be no doubt, from the language of the indictment, that the person charged to have been…