State v. DeLong
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Conway Circuit Court; Hugh Basham, Judge; statement by the court. The grand jury at the October term, 1907, of the Conway Circuit Court, accused Arthur Delong of the crime of felony.
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Appeal from Conway Circuit Court; Hugh Basham, Judge; statement by the court. The grand jury at the October term, 1907, of the Conway Circuit Court, accused Arthur Delong of the crime of felony. The indictment is as follows: “The grand jury of Conway County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse Arthur Delong of the crime of felony, committed_ as' follows, to-wit: The said Arthur Delong, in the county and State aforesaid, on the 26th day of May, 1907, in and upon one Pat Hunter, then and there being unlawfully, feloniously, willfully, deliberately and of his malice…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The question for decision is as to the efficiency of the indictment. Counsel for appellee insist that the indictment is defective because it does not charge the manner of using the knife — making the assault; but in this we can not agree with them.
We do not think the case of Commonwealth v. White, (Ky.) 109 S. W. 324, cited by counsel for appellee, sustains their contention. There the indictment was framed under a section of the Kentucky statutes which provides that “if any person shall draw a deadly weapon, or shall point any deadly weapon at another,”…
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