Simmons v. State

Edgar B. Simmons was indicted on eighteen counts. The indictment charged him with larceny of money from the Citizens’ Bank of TIurlock, Maryland, under the counts with odd numbers, and with obtaining money from the bank by false pretenses •unde'r the counts with the even numbers. Every one of the counts in larceny is followed by a count charging the obtaining of a similar sum of money from the same owner by false pretenses.

The identity of the victim and of the amount and the relative correspondence in time of the crimes charged, and their presentment in separate counts, but in the alternative…