State v. Wales

Joe Wales and Clyde Bailey were convicted of robbery. Their appeal presents ten bills of exception, as follows:

Bill No. 10 was reserved to the overruling of a motion on arrest of judgment on the ground that the indictment charged no offense because it did not charge that the person robbed was the owner of the money taken or in lawful possession thereof.

This was not necessary. In State v. Curtin, 111 La. 129, 35 So. 485, the accused was charged with attempting to rob from the person of Mrs. W'. E. Livaudais the sum of $2.50, “the goods and property of W. E. Livaudais,” and the information was…