Howard v. State

The appellant, James Howard, was indicted in the Franklin circuit court, for the murder of Mollie Howard, his wife; and he was convicted of murder in the first degree. He moved for a new trial, which was refused, and then in arrest of judgment, and the latter motion was likewise overruled.

The ground of the motion in arrest of judgment was: that the indictment did not charge the offense with sufficient certainty.

The indictment contained seven counts, or, in other words, alleged the offense to have been committed in so many different ways. In the first, the killing was alleged to have been by…