Johnson v. Commonwealth

In this case we are asked to review a judgment pronounced against the plaintiff in error, whereby he was sentenced, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, to confinement in the State penitentiary for the term of eighteen years, for the murder of a child seven years of age.

Taking up the assignments of error in their order, we are of opinion that the demurrer to the indictment was properly overruled. The ground of this objection is that the indictment does not state the means whereby life was extinguished, or the character of the instrument or weapon with which the homicide was committed.

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