Williams v. State

Citations

• 5 Tex. Ct. App. 116

Syllabus

<p>Indictment. — The indictment charges the theft of “fifty silver half-dollar pieces, of the value of fifty cents each, the same being corporeal personal property, and altogether of the value of twenty-five dollars, and the property, of one Gr. B.” Held, insufficient, in that the indictment does not show that the money was the current coin of the United States, or any other government. There is no question in pleading better settled than that the thing stolen must be correctly described, for the purpose of identification ; and when coin is charged as the thing stolen, the kind of coin must be specified, when it can be done, by the grand juryand when it cannot, it is proper that the indictment show this fact.</p>