State v. Hopper

Defendant jointly with one Earnest and Robertson, was indicted in the Cedar circuit court for the murder of Samuel O. Ham. At the October term, 1879, ■of the circuit court of Dade county, to which the cause, as to Hopper and Robertson, was removed on change of venue, there was a trial, which resulted in the acquittal of Robertson, and the conviction of- Hopper of murder of the first degree. Erom the judgment against him be has appealed to this court.

*427i. the indictment, *426The motion to quash the indictment was overruled, and this is assigned as error. It charges in appropriate *427language and with…