Spanish v. State

To a conviction of robbery from the person James Spanish takes writ of error.

*415The information charges that he took from the person of one Raymond Killpatrick, a ten dollar bill, a five dollar bill, a one dollar bill and a silver dollar, all of the value of seventeen dolllars. The proof was only that he took seventeen dollars, but nothing to indicate how this amount was made up.

It is true that as the crime is not graded by the value of the article taken, it is immaterial to prove the value as laid, 2 Bishop’s Criminal Procedure, paragraph 1066, but as we said in Broad Williams et al. v. State,…