Ward v. State

Indictment for murder. The defendant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at ten years’ confinement in the state prison. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled, and the judgment and sentence of the Court passed upon the verdict of the jury; to reverse which, this writ of error is prosecuted.

The counsel for the defendant contends, 1. That there is a fatal defect in the indictment upon which the conviction was had. That indictment charges, among other things, “ that the said Walter P. Ward, with a certain gun which he the said Walter P. Ward in both…