Campbell v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—This conviction was for theft from the person. Appellant made a motion to quash the indictment because the description of the alleged stolen property is insufficient to put the defendant on notice of what he is charged with taking; that it does not describe the character of money or that it passed current as money, and gives no further description, and it fails to charge what character or kind of knives were taken, and it gives no description or value of the ring. The indictment, insofar as the motion to quash attacks it, is in the following language: “Corporeal…