Cannon v. State

1. On the trial of the case in the court below the defendant demurred to the indictment, upon the grounds: (a) that “the description of the money alleged to have been stolen was insufficient in law, and does not describe the money so as to put the defendant on notice of what land or character of money the State expects to prove to have been taken or stolen by the defendant;” (b) because “the description, twenty-seven hundred dollars in money,' is entirely too vague and uncertain to put the defendant upon any notice whatever as to the kind ox character of the money lost and alleged to have…