Lanter v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the offense of unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously committing a violent assault with an offensive weapon upon another and demanding from another in a violent and forcible manner money or property of value. The descriptive portion of the indictment then using the same language as above, alleged the offense to have been committed against Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rader.

Appellant on trial was found guilty and his punishment fixed at confinement in the' penitentiary for twenty-one years. He appeals.

The…