Blackwell v. State

Under an indictment for the murder of Ernest Hampton, Blackwell was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The indictment tvas attacked by motion to quash, because the word “bullets” was written “bulltes,” and by a motion in arrest because the phrase “premeditated design” used in our indictments for murder appears in one place as “premeditatted design.”

The strictness of the Common Law in the construction of indictments has been materially modified by our statute, Gen. Stats. section 3962, which forbids that an indictment be quashed or judgment arrested on…