Walker v. State

The indictment is as follows:

“ The grand jury of Yell county, in and for the Dardanelle' district, in the name and by the authority of the state of Arkansas, accuse H. W. Walker of. the crime of a misdemeanor, committed as follows, viz.: The said H.^ W.

Walker, on the fifth day of January, A. D. 1878, in the district, county and state aforesaid, unlawfully did carry a certain pistol as a weapon, against the peace,” etc.

The indictment was returned into court on the twenty-seventh of February, 1878. At the August term following, defendant demurred to the indictment, on the ground that it did not…