Brown v. State

1. The first headnote states enough of the accusation to disclose the point made and decided therein. The accusation is in the usual form employed in such cases, and its sufficiency has been so often recognized that the law ought to be regarded as settled as to this point. Personally speaking, the writer may confess that he believes that the law which allows such looseness and indefiniteness in criminal pleading is very bad law, and that the arguments advanced by counsel for the plaintiff in error as to why it should not be enforced in the present case are some, but not all, of the reasons…