State v. Heffernan

This is the same indictment referred to in State v. Heffernan, 28 R. I. 20, and is now before us upon the' certification of the defendant’s amended motion in arrest of judgment, under C. & P. A., § 478. The motion reads as follows:

“The defendant, having moved the Court to allow him to amend his previous motion in arrest of -judgment, and the same having been allowed: Now sets forth his reasons why the judgment in said case should be arrested, as follows:

“First. That the offence charged against him, for which he was tried, is punishable by a fine of fifty dollars; that cognizance and…