State v. Cross

The defendant assigns several errors in the trial of the case, but we find it necessary to discuss only the first, which is the denial of the defendant’s motion to quash the bill of indictment for failure to describe the charge with sufficient exactness to allow the defendant to prepare a defense.

The bill of indictment did not set out wherein the American Express Money Order had been altered, changed or defaced so as to constitute the claimed forgery. A photostatic copy of the money order itself was attached to the bill of indictment. The evidence, however, disclosed that the money order as…