State v. Goodwin

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The indictment charges that the defendant “did willfully, maliciously and feloniously write, send and cause to be delivered to one William McCuen a letter threatening to accuse said McCuen of the crimes of arson, embezzlement and larceny, etc.”

A motion to quash was made, based on the grounds : “1st. That th indictment is so vague, indefinite and defective for duplicity that it is impossible to tell what is charged against him. 2d. That said indictment does not charge any offense known to the law of Louisiana; that there are two statutes of a…