Hamilton v. State

The appellant was prosecuted and convicted, in the circuit court, upon an information charging that he, with others, on the 18 th day of March, 1895, at, etc., did “unlawfully and feloniously take, steal, and carry away, of the personal property of Jacob Miller, sixteen dollars in money, then and there of the value of sixteen dollars, contrary to the form and statute, etc.”

The action of the circuit court, in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the information, and his motion for a new trial, is assigned as error.

The sufficiency of the information is questioned, *277because of tbe absence of an…