Covington v. People

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, was convicted of the crime "of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of from ten to twelve years at hard labor. Upon the overruling of a motion for a new trial, counsel for defendant interposed a motion in arrest of judgment, for the reason that the information does not state facts sufficient to constitute murder in either degree. The information charges that “Henry Covington, on'the 4th day of January, A. D. 1905, at the said county of El Paso, did then and there in and upon the body of one Winnie Adams…