Commonwealth v. WEATHERWAX

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

These defendants, sailors in the United States Navy, were charged in the separate counts of one indictment with five offenses, referred to thus in the charge of the trial judge: “Number 1: Assault, being armed with an offensive weapon with intent to rob; Number 2: Assault, together with other persons, with intent to rob; Number 3: Bobbery, being armed with an offensive weapon; Number 4: Bobbery, together with other persons; Number 5: Bobbery, and at the commission thereof beating, striking and ill-using”. The five counts of the indictment, in different language charged a…