State v. Taylor

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The indictment charges that the defendant with *836a dangerous weapon, to-wit: a pistol, feloniously did make an assault upon the person of Orange Cliappel, and did feloniously inflict a wound less than mayhem.

After trial, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty as charged.

The accused then moved to arrest the judgment, on the main ground thattlie indictmentis fatally defective for charging two distinct offenses in one single count.

The motion having been overruled, and the prisoner sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, we are called upon to…