State v. Patterson

HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is based on denial of his motion to quash the bill of indictment. He contends the bill “fails to set forth with a degree of particularity and specificity the elements of the crime of murder in the first degree as to enable the defendant to adequately prepare a defense for the same.” In pertinent part, the bill of indictment reads as follows:

“The Jurors for the State Upon Their Oath Do Present, That Ezekiel Patterson late of the County of Lenoir on the 24th day of August 1972, with force and arms, at and in the said county, feloniously,…