State v. Warren
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal as upon Writ of Error,, from the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. To the indictment in this case the traverser demurred, and the Court sustained the demurrer and quashed the indictment, upon the ground that it was bad for duplicity. The case is further stated in the opinion of this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The question raised in this case is one of some importance in criminal pleading. The indictment contains two counts, in each of which the prisoner is charged with stealing several sums of money at the same time, belonging to several owners. And the question is *122whether these counts are had for duplicity. Now, by duplicity in criminal pleading is meant the joinder of two or more distinct and separate offences in the same count. The object of all pleading, civil and criminal, is to present a single issue in regard to the same subject-matter, and it would- he against this fundamental rule to…
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