Nicholson v. State

The indictment charges that the accused, at a time and place stated, “ did then and there unlawfully and willfully kill, by shooting, a certain gelding, the property of Preston Abbott, of the value of fifty dollars, with intent to injure the owner, contrary,” etc.

After trial and conviction the accused made a motion in arrest of judgment, on the following grounds:

1. Because the indictment in this case is not sufficient in law to support the judgment rendered thereon.

-2. Because the indictment does not charge any offense *32against, the laws of the state in plain and intelligible language.

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