Fields v. Commonwealth

Sims, J.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:

The assignments of error raise the questions which will be disposed of in their order as stated below.

[1] 1. Does the indictment sufficiently charge the overt acts done towards the commission of the offense?

This question must be answered in the affirmative.

The indictment is informal in some respects. It, however, follows the statute in its use of the word “attempt,” and further charges that the attempt was “to commit the crime of murder,” and that the overt acts done towards the commission of that…