Arnold v. State

The appellant was convicted of robbery. The errors assigned are, that the court erred in overruling motions to quash the indictment and for a new trial.

The objection urged against the indictment is, that it does not contain a proper and sufficient description of the property alleged to have been taken. The charging part of the indictment is, “that one John Ripley Arnold, late of said county, on the 23d day of November, A. D. 1874, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, forcibly and feloniously take from the person of one George F. Stark, by violence and by putting…