65 Iowa 617 | Iowa | 1885
I. The defendant, with others, was convicted in the Marshall district court on this indictment. An appeal was taken to this court, and tbe judgment was reversed, and tbe cause was remanded for a new trial. See 62 Iowa, 108. After the cause was remanded, it was transferred to the Tama district court, where the trial was bad from which tbe present appeal was taken. After tbe cause was transferred to Tama county, tbe defendant, by leave of tbe court, withdrew bis plea of not guilty, and demurred to tbe indictment.
The demurrer was upon fifteen distinct grounds, which we do not deem it necessary to set out in this opinion. We have set out the indictment as the very best argument that could be made in support of the decision of the court in overruling the demurrer. If we were to hold that this indictment is demurrable, we should very greatly astonish the legal profession. The only respect in which it could well be made more specific is, that it might have stated how many of the $100 notes were national bank-notes, and how many were national currency notes. But this was wholly unnecessary, because, if there was one of each, or of either, of the value of $100, the indictment was sufficient. We must be excused from following counsel in his argument upon the sufficiency of this indictment.
Affirmed.