State v. Durbin

McCALEB, Justice.

Calvin Durbin is appealing from his conviction of simple robbery, complaining solely of the overruling of his motion in arrest of judgment in which he claims that the bill of information filed against him is fatally defective.

The bill sets forth that Calvin Durbin and others “ * * * did wilfully maliciously and feloniously rob Amos Gwin”. Appellant asserts that this charge does not comply with the short form provided for simple robbery in R.S. 15:235, and that the information is not otherwise sufficient to apprise him of the nature of the accusation as it does not contain all…