State v. Spooner

CLARK, Judge.

The defendant asserts error in denial of his motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the indictment alleges that his name is Mike Spooner but that his proper name is Michael Charles Irwin Spooner. The only evidence that defendant’s proper name is Michael Charles Irwin Spooner comes from the *204defendant himself. The defendant’s mother, brother and friends who offered alibi testimony, referred to him as Mike Spooner.

The name of the defendant in ah indictment is required to be set out with some degree of accuracy and completeness for the purpose of protecting him from double…