State v. Haynes

DALTON, Judge.

Defendant has appealed from a conviction of murder in the second degree and a sentence of IS years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Two assignments of error are presented. The first is that the information is insufficient to charge an offense and the second is that the trial court erred in not instructing on manslaughter.

As to the first assignment, appellant says the amended information is not “a plain, concise, definite statement of the essential elements of the offense attempted to be charged, as required by Supreme Court Rule 24”; and that it does not “fully inform…