Douglass v. State

The indictment contained three counts, and there was a general verdict returned by the jury, “Guilty as charged in the indictment.”

Numerous insistences as to the sufficiency of the several counts of the indictment were made in the court below, and the rulings of the court on these questions are here urged as being error.

The offense charged was “assault with intent to rob.” There is no statutory robbery in this state. The common law prevails in Alabama as to this offense; and robbery, at common law, is an offense against both person and property, and is briefly defined as the felonious taking…