Alford v. State

The writ of error brings for review judgment of conviction of one Auzie Alford in the Circuit Court of Okaloosa County under the second count of an indictment in the following language:

“And the Grand Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present that W. D. Houston, on June 1st, 1937, at and in Okaloosa County, Florida, did then and there feloniously attempt to commit an offense prohibited by the laws of Florida, and in such attempt did then and there do a certain act toward the commission of the said offense, that is to say that he, the said W. D. Houston, with the…