State v. Picou

With all ‘due respect to my associates, I do not subscribe to the view set forth in the majority opinion that the district attorney’s statement contained in the bill of particulars that “The total value of the cause of action as of August 7,1957 (the date of the alleged crime), is unknown” had the effect of negativing the value of $1,875 affirmatively set forth in the indictment and assigned therein to the object of the theft, the 20% interest in the cause of action.

I readily concede, as pointed out by the majority, that the thing taken must have “some value”, such value being an essential…