Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Peters :

The first reason urged by the learned attorneys for the appellant for a reversal of the judgment, is for art alleged insufficiency of the indictment in omitting to state therein that Cook, the person wounded, did not die from the wounds then and there inflicted.

The same question was before this court in Burns v. Commonwealth, 3 Met. 13;. and after stating the general requisites of an indictment as prescribed by the Criminal Code, the court decided that an indictment for wilfully and maliciously shooting and wounding another with an intention to kill, the words “so that…