Turk v. State
| Decision Date | 01 June 1904 |
| Citation | 37 So. 234,140 Ala. 110 |
| Parties | TURK v. STATE. |
| Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Butler County; J. C. Richardson, Judge.
Charlie Turk was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and appeals. Reversed.
At the spring term, 1902, of the circuit court of Butler county, the grand jury preferred an indictment against the appellant in this case and others, which was in words and figures as follows: "The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Charlie Turk, Lovett Turk and Zeb Turk unlawfully and with malice aforethought did assault Frank Phillips with the intent to murder against the peace and dignity of the state of Alabama." The case was called for trial, and, after the jury had been selected and legally sworn to try the case, and the indictment had been read to them, and the defendants had pleaded not guilty, the solicitor called the attention of the court to a defect in the indictment, in that it failed to state whom the defendants intended to kill; it appearing that, just after the words "intent to murder," the word "him" or "Frank Phillips" was omitted. The solicitor asked the defendants to agree to an amendment of the indictment to cure the defect. Upon the defendants declining to consent to the indictment being amended, the solicitor thereupon moved the court to quash the indictment and to order another indictment to be found against the defendants. Against the objection of the defendants, the court granted the motion to quash the indictment, and ordered another indictment to be preferred, and, against the defendants' objection, discharged the jury which had been impaneled to try the case. At the spring term, 1903, of the circuit court of Butler county, the grand jury preferred another indictment against the same defendants, which was in words and figures as follows: "The grand jury of said county charge that, before the finding of this indictment Charlie Turk, Lovett Turk, and Zeb Turk unlawfully and with malice aforethought did assault John Phillips, with the intent to murder him, against the peace and dignity of the state of Alabama." To the second indictment the defendants pleaded former jeopardy. To this plea the solicitor demurred upon the ground which is stated in the opinion. The court sustained the demurrer. The defendants then pleaded not guilty, and, on the trial, Lovett Turk and Zeb Turk were acquitted, and the appellant in this case Charlie Turk, was convicted of an assault on John Phillips who was alleged in the plea of former jeopardy to be the same person as Frank Phillips, named in the first indictment. From a judgment of conviction, the present appeal is prosecuted.
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