Schoolcraft v. State

The defendant, Raymond Schoolcraft, was jointly charged by an information filed in the district court of Custer county, with. Edward Duggins, Ephie Humphrey and Robert Strong, with the crime of riot; a severance was granted, the defendant Schoolcraft was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a life term in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

The principal assignment of error presented by counsel for defendant is that the amended information filed against the defendant was duplicitous as charging a number of distinct offenses, and for that reason the court erred in overruling the…