State v. Atkins

The appellant was tried on an indictment charging that he “did unlawfully and feloniously shoow one Rich Armstrong with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a pistol, with intent him, the said Rich Armstrong, to kill and slay.” The jury found him “guilty as charged.” He filed a motion in arrest of judgment, alleging that it was not a crime to shooio a person with a pistol with intent to kill him, and that therefore he had not been convicted of an offense for which a sentence could be imposed. The motion in arrest of judgment was overruled, and the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor…