State v. Pallet

BOBBITT, Chief Justice.

“No indictment, whether at common law or under a statute, can be good if it does not accurately and clearly allege all of the constituent elements of the crime sought to be charged. It must charge the offense with sufficient certainty to apprise the defendant of the specific accusation against him so as to enable him to prepare his defense and to protect him from a subsequent prosecution for the same, offense, and to enable the court to proceed to judgment.

“An indictment or warrant is sufficient if it charges the offense in a plain, intelligible, and explicit manner,…