State v. McCarty

Defendant was charged with the crime of receiving stolen goods. At the close of the State’s case, the defendant made a motion for a peremptory instruction to acquit on the grounds that the information was duplicitous and that there was a total absence of evidence tending to establish defendant’s guilt in certain vital particulars.

The motion was granted and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

We do not decide whether, if the information were duplicitous, an instruction to acquit would be proper because the information was not duplicitous. (C. S., sec. 8438; State v. Janks, 26 Ida. 567,…