State v. Bellamy

Citations

• 63 Kan. 144
• 65 P. 274
• 1901 Kan. LEXIS 109

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Larceny—Form of Complaint. Where the statute specifically describes an offense or uses language descriptive of it, a complaint drawn thereunder should substantially follow the descriptive language. A complaint which charges “that the defendant did steal, take and carry away certain personal property, to wit, forty pounds of barb-wire, of the value of two dollars,” etc. is not sufficient to admit testimony or support a conviction of severing from a fence certain portions thereof and converting it, with intent to steal.</p>