Turpin v. State

— The appellant was convicted and sentenced to the State prison for three years, upon a charge of assault and battery with intent to murder.

He prosecutes this appeal on three grounds:

First. That the indictment is defective.

Second. That he was not arraigned properly.

Third. That the offence being charged to have been committed on a day prior to the taking effect of the laws of 1881, and the indictment not having been found until after those laws came into force, the right to prosecute the case was gone.

The last point was decided adversely to the appellant in Sanders v. The State, 77 Ind. 227.

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