Clue v. State

Citations

• 78 Miss. 661

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Procedure. Indictment. Duplicity.</p> <p>An indictment for arson, charging in the same count the burning of a cotton house, the property of one person, and the burning of cotton in the house, the joint property of said person and another, is not bad for duplicity.</p> <p>3. Same. Code 1893, <¡ 1354.</p> <p>Charging two offenses in the same count is bad practice, but objection thereto can be raised only by demurrer, under code 1893, $ 1354, providing that objections apparent on the face of an indictment must be so made.</p>