State v. Quinn

The appellant was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and brings this case here upon several assignments of error, the decision of which will require no particular statement of the facts. It is first urged that appellant was not served with a copy of the information, thus being denied the protection of the Bill of Rights, in that he has not been informed of the nature and cause of the accusation made against him. Section 22, art. 1 of the state constitution provides that every person accused of crime shall have the right “to demand the nature and cause of the accusation…