State v. Cornish

Buford Cornish and Manville Purcell above named defendants were prosecuted on an information charging them with robbery. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty and judgment sentencing defendants to a term in the penitentiary was entered. From such judgment they have appealed to this court.

At the opening of the trial the defendants objected to the introduction of any evidence on the ground that Count I of the information on which defendants were tried contains more than one offense. Count I of the information reads as follows:

“That Buford Cornish and Manville Purcell late of said county,…