Vaughn v. State

GARDNER, Justice.

The appeal is from a conviction of murder in the first degree, with infliction of the death penalty.

The indictment contains two counts, each charging defendant with the killing of Annie Mae Adkins; the first alleging that she was killed by striking her with a blunt instrument, “a more particular description of which is to the grand jury otherwise unknown”; the second, “by means which is to the grand jury unknown.”

The plea in abatement filed by defendant was rested upon the theory that the Act of October 7, 1932 (General Acts 1932, Extra Session, page 89), concerning the…