When an act is criminal, if producing different results, such results may be charged in an indictment in the same count in the alternative.
(Code 1852, §574; Code 1867, §4124; Code 1876, §4797; Code 1886, §4384; Code 1896, §4912; Code 1907, §7150; Code 1923, §4545; Code 1940, T. 15, §248.)