State v. Appleby

*527The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The substantial question in this case is whether the indictment which charges the defendant with obtaining by false pretences “a large amount of dry and fancy goods of the value of twenty-seven hundred dollars,” describes the property obtained with sufficient certainty.

In Hagerman v. State, 25 Vroom 104, this court, speaking by Mr. Justice Reed, declared that as a general rule the same certainty of description is required in an indictment for obtaining goods by false pretences as in an indictment for larceny. The leading objects of the…