State v. Cole

We shall first consider certain assignments of error based on exceptions which both defendants have preserved and argued in their respective briefs.

The defendants insist that the trial court committed error in refusing to sustain their respective motions to quash the bill of indictment. They contend that while the indictment attempts to charge the defendants and their companions or associates with unlawful assembly, 'the indictment does not set forth any unlawful purpose or •any unlawful acts which the defendants assembled to commit; that it does not charge the defendants with the necessary…