Cook v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Curtis Cook was charged by indictment with murder in the second degree and convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. The jury fixed the punishment at twelve months at hard labor and a fine of $10.00. He was sentenced accordingly and after motion for new trial was overruled he appealed to this court.

The indictment charged that Cook “killed Charles Holland by beating him with his fists, and by causing him to strike his head on the paved sidewalk, * *

The indictment was not duplicitous, and was not subject to the ground of demurrer that two separate transactions were…