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Supreme Court· 5/14/1894

Evans v. United States

Citations

  • 153 U.S. 584
  • 14 S. Ct. 934
  • 38 L. Ed. 830
  • 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2206

Syllabus

<p>An indictment should charge the crime, alleged to have been committed, with precision and certainty, and every ingredient of which it is composed must be accurately and clearly alleged; but it is not necessary in framing it to set up an impracticable standard of particularity, whereby the government may be entrapped into making allegations which it would' be impossible to prove.</p> <p>Applying this rule, the eighth count in the indictment, charging the prisoner with unlawfully procuring the surrender and delivery to himself of the funds of a national bank of which he was a director, and the fourteenth count, charging him with knowingly and fraudulently aiding in procuring the discount of unsecured paper by the bank, are examined in detail, and'are held to be sufficient to sustain the conviction.</p> <p>A verdict of guilty, entered upon all the counts of an indictment, should stand if any one of them is good.</p>

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  • “Neither in criminal nor in civil pleading is it required to anticipate or negative a defense.”
  • “Neither in criminal nor in civil pleading is it required to anticipate or negative a defense.”

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Judges: Brown, Field

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