State v. Snowden

Appellees, Laval Snowden, Rex Ritcher, and Burkett May, were indicted by the grand jury of Lauderdale county of the crime of robbing one R>. W. Johnson of the sum of about six dollars. Appellees demurred to- the indictment, and the demurrer was sustained. From that judgment the state prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment, leaving off the formal parts, is in this language:

‘ ‘ That Laval Snowden, Bex Bichter, and Burkett May in said county, on the- — ■ day of--A. D., 1932, in and upon B. W. Johnson unlawfully and feloniously did make an assault with a deadly weapoii, to-wit a pistol, and him…