State v. Cox

Defendant moved in the court below and again in this Court for arrest of judgment for that the warrant upon which he was tried, convicted and sentenced fails to particularize the crime charged, and is not sufficiently explicit to protect him against subsequent prosecutions for the same offense. The case of S. v. Scott, 241 N.C. 178, 84 S.E. 2d, 654, is cited for the “standard and test.”

In the Scott case it is declared by Barnhill, C. J., for the Court, that “the allegations in a bill of indictment must particularize the crime charged and be sufficiently explicit to protect the defendant…