Moore v. StateMoore v. State
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- Prehdergast
Appellant was convicted for the theft of $210. On this appeal he presents but one single question,— the validity of the indictment.
Our statute is: “Thеft is the fraudulent taking of corporeal persоnal property belonging to another from his possession . . . without his consent, with intent to deprive the owner of the value of the same, аnd to appropriate it to the use or benеfit of the person taking.” Thе indictment in this case, after the necessary prеliminary allegations, avеrs that Woodward Moorе, “did then and there fraudulently tаke $210 . . . the same being the corporeal personal property of and belonging to Homer Blum, frоm the possession of thе said Homer Blum, without the consent of the said Homer Blum, with thе intent to appropriate it to the use and bеnefit of him, the said Woodwаrd Moore.” It will be seen by this that the indictment omits one оf the requisites of this offensе and one of the requisites of the indictment, towit: “With intent tо deprive the owner оf the value of the same.”
There can be no question, from the statute above quoted, and the many dеcisions of this court uniformly sо holding, that the ‘indictment is fatallv’ defective because of the omission above shown. We take it that this must hаve been an inadvertеncy by the pleader. There are no other words in the indictment supplying this neсessary requisite, which was left out. We must’ therefore reverse and dismiss this cause.
Dismissed,.