State v. Durbin

The defendant was tried, convicted and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment at hard labor, for the crime of robbery.

He relies for the reversal of the judgment appealed from on several grounds, specified in his bill of exceptions, none of which are tenable, save one.

After all the evidence and arguments had gone to the jury, the district attorney moved the court to amend his indictment by changing the averment of time, at which the robbery was committed; aBd alter going inte trial, he moved to amend his indictment by inserting the word feloniously before the word rob, which was allowed by…