Meriwether v. State

Jim Meriwether was jointly indicted, but severally tried and convicted, on four separate counts of robbery from the person by force and intimidation, upon allegations varying in the main only as to the victims and the amounts of money taken. On arraignment the defendant, by plea in abatement, moved to quash the indictment, which plea the State moved to strike. The court granted the State’s motion, and the defendant excepted pendente lite. A motion for new trial was overruled, and the defendant excepted. :

1. The defendant assigned error on the order sustaining the motion to strike his plea,…