State v. Moore

Rice, J.,

delivering the opinion of the court:

This is a motion on behalf of two of three defendants to quash an indictment charging them with fraudulently obtaining a check for the payment of money.

The objection urged in support of the motion is that in each of the four counts the property alleged to have been obtained by the false pretense is not described with sufficient particularity. The language in each of the four counts is as follows:

‘‘That the defendants did unlawfully, knowingly, and designedly obtain from the said William J. Elliott, a certain check for the payment of money, to wit,…