People v. Steel

Wiggins, J.:

The indictment accuses the defendant of grand larceny in the ■first degree, and contains a second count accusing the defendant of the crime of receiving stolen property in the first degree.

The defendant’s attorney raises no question but that a crime may be charged in separate counts to have been committed in a *814different manner or by different means. The statute (Code Crim. Proc. § 279) provides that where the acts complained of may constitute different crimes, such crimes may be charged in separate counts in the indictment, and an indictment which accuses a defendant of grand…