Case ID: ind_56/html/0209-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Perkins, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Buckner v. The State.
    Criminal Law.—Trial.—Arrest of Judgment.—"Where the record in a criminal prosecution shows no charge against the defendant, judgment upon a finding therein against him should be arrested.
    Erom the Morgan Circuit Court.
    
      G. W. Grubbs, M. II. Parks and J. IT. Jordan, for appellant.
    
      
      A. M. Cunning, Prosecuting Attorney, and C. A. Bus-kirk, Attorney General, for the State.
   Perkins, C. J.

Indictment against appellant. Trial and conviction.

There is no indictment, or copy thereof, in the record. A motion in arrest of judgment was overruled, and exception taken. The motion should have been sustained.

The judgment is reversed, and cause remanded, with instructions to sustain the motion in arrest of judgment.

Petition for a rehearing overruled.