120 Ga. 866 | Ga. | 1904
1. “The description of a thing must be always one of degree. . . Certainty to a reasonable intent .is all the law requires.” Brown v. State, 44 Ga. 301.
2. The indictment charged but one offense ; and the description of the articles alleged to have'been stolen, taken all together, was sufficiently definite to identify the transaction under investigation, was full enough to put the accused persons, on notice of what they were charged with having .stolen, and gave them all the information to which they were .entitled to enable them to preparé for trial. ''
3. When the larceny of several articles is charged in one bill of indictment, it is the better practice to set out the value of each article; but it is not indispensable to the validity of the indictment that this should be done. The indictment is good if it alleges merely the .aggregate yalue of the articles charged to have been stolen. 2 Bish. New Cr. Proc. § 714 ; State v. Brew, 4 Wash. 95, 31 Am. St. Rep. 904; State v. Beatty, 90 Mo. 143; State v. Hart, 29 Iowa, 268 ; State v. Buck, 46 Maine, 531; State v. Hood, 51 Maine, 363 ; Meyer v. State, 4 Tex. App. 121.
Judgment affirmed.'