Bolden v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Hargis:

The .indictment charges that the appellant “feloniously took a pocketbook and forty-six dollars from D. P. Sheldon by force *184and violence, against his will, and by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person.” These facts constitute robbery, and the indictment is therefore sufficient.

B. W. Bagby, for appellant. P. W. Hardin, for appellee.

No demurrer was filed to the indictment, and the motion in arrest of judgment was properly overruled, because it charges a public offense, which is all that is required of the verdict.

While the first instruction alone does…