Mississippi Supreme Court· 10/15/1916
Young v. State
Citations
- 112 Miss. 769
- 73 So. 786
Syllabus
<p>Cbiminal Law. Motion in arrest of judgment. Grounds.</p> <p>As “Charity covers a multitude of sins” in the domain of morals, so a verdict of a jury in Mississippi covers a multitude of defects in pleadings; and it is only in cases where the indictment is a nullity, because of insufficiency, that a motion in arrest of judgment can he entertained at all.</p>
Judges: Ethbidge
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