Rogers v. State

Citations

• 73 Fla. 42
• 74 So. 15

Syllabus

<p>1. An allegation in an indictment that the accused with a knife “did strike, cut, stab and wound, giving to L., then and there with the knife aforesaid and upon the body of the said L., one mortal wound,” considered alone or with other allegations, is not a charge that the accused wounded himself but that he wounded L.</p> <p>2. Where it is alleged in an indictment for murder in the first degree filed May 20, 1916, that a mortal wound was inflicted on March 10, 1916, and that “of which mortal wound the said” decedent “died,” and the trial and conviction is had in July, 1916, and a motion in arrest of judgment is made and denied in October, 1916, a contention in such motion in arrest that the indictment is fatally defective because it does not allege the date of the decedent’s death, is untenable.</p>