State v. Johnson

Citations

• 19 Wash. 410
• 53 P. 667
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 399

Syllabus

<p>BOBBERY — SUFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION — DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY TAKEN —INSTRUCTIONS.</p> <p>In an information charging robbery of money it is sufficient to describe the property taken as lawful money, without any further designation thereof, under Code Proc., § 1253 (Bal. Code, § 6859) which provides that in an indictment or information fox-larceny or embezzlement of money, it is sufficient to allege the larceny or embezzlement to be of money, without specifying the. coin, number, denomination or kind thereof.</p> <p>An instruction charging the jury to bring in a verdict for defendants unless they find that defendants forcibly took from the person of the prosecuting witness lawful money of the United States belonging to him, with the intent to convert the same to their own use against the will of said prosecuting witness, is sufficient, as the words use'd are equivalent to describing the act as feloniously done..</p> <p>No error can be predicated upon the court’s omission to define the phrase “ reasonable doubt,” when there is no request therefor.</p>