State v. Clark

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

E. C. Clark was charged with counseling, aiding and abetting in the murder of W. C. Boyd, and was found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. The sentence imposed was imprisonment at hard labor for a term of five years, and the defendant appeals, alleging that several rulings of the court were erroneous and prejudicial. The court sustained the information as against an attack that it did not specifically charge the defendant as though he was a principal with the murderer of Boyd. The information first sets out at length the charge…