State v. Maddox

On the appellee’s motion the indictment against him in this case was quashed, and to this decision the State excepted and has appealed therefrom to this court. The only question for our decision, therefore, is this : Did. the trial court err in quashing the indictment?

Omitting introductory and formal matters, the indictment charged, in substance, that “John C. Maddox, late of said county, on the 1st day of November, A. D. 1880, at said county and State aforesaid, did then arid there unlawfully draw a certain dangerous and deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol, commonly called a revolver, upon the…