People v. Weir

Richard Weir, plaintiff in error, was indicted in the circuit court of Saline County for the murder of David Nalley, and upon a trial was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of his natural life.

There was a motion to quash the indictment, which contained six counts charging the defendant with shooting and killing David Nalley, and the motion was sustained as to the sixth and overruled as to the other counts. The objection to the five counts on which the defendant was tried is, that in the first, third and fifth counts the defendant was named as Richard…