Clements v. State

In both counts of the indictment this appellant was charged with the commission of the offenses designated, under the name of Lloyd' Clements. As an answer thereto, and before pleading to the merits, the defendant filed his plea of misnomer in proper form and substance, and sworn to as the law requires, in which it was insisted that his true name is Lloyd Clemmons, and not Lloyd Clements, as alleged in the indictment, and that he has never been known or called by the name of Lloyd Clements, etc.

To this plea in abatement the state demurred upon the sole ground that the names of Clemmons and…