Edson v. State

The appellant was charged and convicted in the lower court of having unlawfully and feloniously stolen, taken and carried away “six razors, of the valué of ten dollars; two finger rings, of the value of three dollars, one pair of hair clippers, of the value of two dollars, and one pair of scissors, of the value of one dollar,” — of the personal goods of John Yincent. It is insisted that the indictment charged no public offense for the reason that the razors and the rings were not described and valued separately; it being insufficient, as claimed, to describe them collectively. This objection…