O'Connor v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted under section 2098, E. S. 1881, on a charge of having given away, on Sunday, intoxicating liquors to be drunk as a beverage.

We are asked to reverse the judgment upon the action of the court below in overruling the motion to quash the indictment. The contention is that the indictment is bad, because in the title or caption the name of the defendant is given as Dennis P. O’Connor, and in the body of the indictment as Dennis O’Connor.

The statute now provides, as did the statute of 1852, that the indictment must contain the title of the action, specifying the…