State v. Henry

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The defendant, Thomas Henry, was found guilty of the crime of robbery, and from a sentence of three years at hard labor in the State penitentiary has appealed, relying upon a single bill of exception reserved to the ruling of the court overruling his motion in arrest of judgment.

His contention is, that robbery is not a crime which is defined in the criminal statutes of the State; and that, being a common law crime, the English common law must be resorted to for a definition of it. And that it is elementary that indictments for robbery must…