State v. Nugent

The bill of indictment has two counts: one for larceny, and one for receiving stolen property knowing it to have been stolen. The description of the property in the larceny count is a “quantity of meat of the value of fifteen hundred dollars, of the goods, chattels and moneys of one R & S Packing Company.” A similar description occurs in the receiving count. Are the descriptions of the property in the two counts of the bill of indictment sufficient?

It is an essential of jurisdiction that a criminal offense shall be sufficiently charged in a warrant or an indictment. S. v. Thorne, 238 N.C.…