State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Upon points reserved as novel and difficult, from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstry. George Willims, James Davis and George Ferguson were jointly indicted in the City Court of Mobile, for grand larceny. The indictment charged them with having stolen from the person of one Doctor M. Parker a certain purse, whose value wag stated, and certain “ Bank notes” eo nomine, the number denomination and value of wMch were stated.
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Upon points reserved as novel and difficult, from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKinstry. George Willims, James Davis and George Ferguson were jointly indicted in the City Court of Mobile, for grand larceny. The indictment charged them with having stolen from the person of one Doctor M. Parker a certain purse, whose value wag stated, and certain “ Bank notes” eo nomine, the number denomination and value of wMch were stated. A motion was made to quash the indictment, which was overruled. The defendants on the trial were all found guilty, and afterwards moved in arrest…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
The motion to quash this indictment, as also to arrest the judgment, was properly overruled. Waiving the consideration of the question, whether, inasmuch as the indictment charges a larceny from the person of a certain purse of the value of one dollar, this would not, under the general finding of the jury, support the judgment of the court, we are quite sure that the indictment sufficiently avers the larceny of the bank notes. The number, denomination and value of the notes are stated, and the indictment describes them as “banknotes.” In this it conforms to the statute, which enacts that “…
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