State v. . Everhardt

In apt time and before pleading to the bill of indictment and before the jury was empaneled, the defendant made a motion (1) to quash the bill of indictment; (2) plea in abatement and to jurisdiction. S. v. Oliver, 186 N. C., 329; S. v. Mitchem, 188 N. C., 608; S. v. Ritter, 199 N. C., 116; S. v. Ellis, 200 N. C., 77.

One of the material contentions of the defendant is that the bill of indictment is defective “for the reason that the law requires the bill of indictment to set out in detail the profanity charged to have been used, the words, the acts, the conduct and the matters and things…