State v. Hogan

This was an indictment under section fifty-eight, article eight, of crimes and punishments, which says that “ every person who shall shoot at a mark along or across a public highway shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be fined the sum of five dollars.”

The indictment charges the offence in general terms without designating any particular highway in the county; and for this omission we are of opinion the indictment is defective. One of the objects for which particularity in setting out the offence is required, being that the conviction, or acquittal of the…