Woods v. Commonwealth

The accused, Steve Woods and John Hatfield, on the 25th day of September, 1923, were indicted for the murder of Ervin Mullins. Upon their trial by a jury they were found guilty of murder in the first degree and their punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life. Upon this finding of the jury, judgment was entered by the trial court. To that judgment this writ of error was awarded.

The action of the court in overruling the demurrer to the indictment is assigned as error.

The ground of demurrer is that the indictment does not charge specifically that Ervin Mullins was a human…