State v. Brown

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The accused was indicted and convicted for inflicting a wound less than mayhem and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for two years.

The information charged that he “did wantonly and maliciously, with a dangerous weapon, to.wit, a knife, feloniously inflict a wound less than mayhem.”

The record contains no bill of exception, assignment of errors, or motion of any kind.

Our attention, however, is called in the brief of counsel for the accused to alleged defects apparent on the face of the record.

These are the use of the word “wantonly”…