State v. Adams

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Noel Adams, was prosecuted under a bill of information charging that he and three codefendants, namely, Clarence J. Decay, George Wooderson, and a woman named Odestes Porter, had “attempted to murder one Joseph Blackman”. The woman obtained a severance, and afterwards the district attorney entered a nolle prosequi as to her. The appellant and the two other defendants were tried by a jury and were found “guilty of attempted negligent homicide”. Decay and Wooderson were sentenced to serve a term of 24 months in the penitentiary. They did not appeal. Adams…