State v. Sanders

The defendant was indicted in the circuit court of Mississippi county, at its February term, 1882, for murder in the first degree, for killing one Moses Wing, on the 19th day of November, 1881. He was put upon his trial at the same term the indictment was found, and convicted of murder in the first degree. From this judgment of conviction the defendant has appealed to this court, and through his counsel has assigned various grounds of error, the first of which is the action of the court in overruling a demurrer to the indictment.

*361. murder: pleading. *35The court was asked to sustain the demurrer…