State v. Hobbs

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

The accused appeals from a verdict of murder without «capital punishment, and assigns as errors the following grounds:

*227First. That the indictment for murder is detective, because it does not set forth the time at -which deceased died, the coroner’s inquest showing that he died more than forty days after the infliction of the alleged fatal wounds.

We find that the indictment charges that the murder was committed on the 27th of March, 1880; and under such an averment it was competent for the State to prove the time at which the fatal blow or wound…