Fowler v. State

The indictment in this case is sufficient to support the charge of a violation of the law. It is not always absolutely essential that the indictment should charge the offense in precisely the language of the statute; so that equivalent words or terms be used, it is, in most cases, sufficient.

To charge the defendant with driving live stock out of the instead of its accustomed range, is charging one and the same offense, and a palpable violation of the law. The court, therefore, did not err in overruling the exception to the indictment. The evidence presented in the record is somewhat…