State v. Erdlen

The charge made in the indictment, in substance, is that the defendant at a time named, and in the county of Wapello, “ did unlawfully, willfully, and felo-niously then and there be found having in his possession burglar’s tools and implements, with intent to commit the crime of burglary,” etc. After verdict defendant presented *621bis motion in arrest of judgment, based upon the insufficiency of the indictment to warrant or sustain a conviction, and this for the reason in particular that the indictment contained no description of the tools or implements alleged to have been found in his…