Humphries v. State

Cobb, Justice.

Humphries was indicted for the offense of robbery, the indictment alleging’ the taking from the person of another of “five dollars in paper money, of the value of five dollars.” There was a demurrer to the indictment, on the ground that the property alleged to have been taken was not sufficiently described. The accused was convicted, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, excepted.

1. In the case of Cody v. The State, ante, 105, it was held that an indictment for larceny after trust, which described the property as “ninety dollars in paper money of the value of ninety…