Crews v. State

Jim Crews was indicted for murder in the first degree, and convicted of murder in the second degree by a petit jury, which fixed his punishment at fifteen years in the State Penitentiary.

It is first insisted that the judgment should be reversed because the court erred in not sustaining a demurrer to the indictment on the ground that it was defective in charging the offense in the same count to have been committed by different means or manner. The indictment charges the defendant with murder in the first degree by killing Dug Rowls by shooting him with a pistol, and by stomping him in the face…