State v. Dengel

Citations

• 24 Wash. 49
• 63 P. 1104
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 492

Syllabus

<p>BOBBERY-SUFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION — OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY TAKEN.</p> <p>An information charging tbe crime of robbery.is insufficient when it fails to allege ownership of the property taken in some one, other than the defendant.</p> <p>SAME-CONVICTION OF LESSER OFFENSE-INSTRUCTIONS.</p> <p>Under an indictment or information charging robbery, the defendant may be convicted of the lesser offense of larceny, and, where the evidence tended to show a larceny rather than a robbery, it was error for the court, upon a prosecution for robbery, to refuse to instruct on the crime of larceny as included within the charge of robbery.</p>