Webb v. State

The question as propounded by the Court of Appeals, and set forth in the headnote, is answered in the negative. In 14 E. C. L. 196, § 41, it is stated: “Every separate count charges the defendant as if he had committed a distinct offense, because it is upon the principle of the joinder of offenses that the joinder of counts is admitted, and in strict point of law it is permissible to insert several distinct offenses of the same class, though committed at different times, in different counts in the same indictment against *415the same offender, in the absence of statute prohibiting the joinder of…