White v. State

July 18, 1933, the county solicitor of Dade County filed an information in the Criminal Court of Rec ord charging O. B. White with assaulting Shannon Cormack with a deadly weapon (a pistol) with intent to commit murder in the first degree. AVhite was arraigned and interposed pleas in abatement to the information which were overruled. A trial resulted in verdict of guilty and a sentence to serve seven years in the State penitentiary. A new trial and motion in arrest of judgment were overruled and writ of error prosecuted to this Court.

The information was appropriately moved against. The plea…