State v. Weeks

This cause is before us on the appeal of the State from the action of the circuit court of Howell county, in sustaining a motion to quash the second count of an indictment charging defendants with feloniously assaulting and inflicting great bodily harm on John Key. Among other grounds contained in the motion to quash, it is alleged that the indictment is vague, illegible, uncertain and unintelligible, and that the second count fails to state any offense. It is contended on the part of the State that the motion to quash should have been disregarded by the trial court because it did not…