State v. Swift

COPELAND, Justice.

Counsel for defendant makes a total of 63 assignments of error, based on 333 exceptions. 12 assignments have been abandoned.(1) Assignment of Error No. 1 contends it was error to deny defendant’s motion to quash the bills of indictment because defendant’s name is set out in both bills as “Tamarcus Swift (Alias Poison Ivy).”

The word “alias” is defined in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 52, 53 (1971) as “used esp. in legal proceedings to connect the different names of anyone who has gone by or been known by two or more names.” The record in this case indicates…