State v. Shepard

Harry Shepard was by the verdict of a jury found guilty of murder in the third degree as charged in the indictment. From the order denying a new trial he appeals.

The main attack of the appellant is directed against the order sustaining the indictment as against a demurrer and permitting the introduction of evidence over the objection that the indictment did not state a public offense. The indictment is not a model of con-ciseness and no good purpose will be served by setting it out in extenso. In substance, it charges that on the sixth day of September, 1926, at the city of Minneapolis,…