State v. Bell

The defendants, Bill Bell, Ed. Tullos, and J. D. Price, were charged in separate counts of a bill of information with the following offenses resulting from a single act, viz.: (1) Cutting and stabbing one Newell Ray Yolentine with a dangerous weapon with the intent to murder; and (2) inflicting a wound less than mayhem upon said Yolentine with a dangerous weapon.

Defendants filed a motion to quash the information on the ground that it charged more than one offense, and, in the alternative, that the state should be required to elect on which charge it intended to proceed against the defendants.…