 | Law - 1870 - 546 pages
...46.39 of the Revision, when the act charged as to the oflense Is stated with such a degree of certainty and In such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what Is Intended and the court to pronounce judgment. The State v. SchUl. 4. Perjury; indictment. — In an Indictment forperjury... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 582 pages
...wholly unintelligible. An indictment or information must contain ' a statement- of the acts constitnting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is iutended.' § 950, Penal Code. An information partly in English... | |
 | Wyoming - Law - 1870 - 808 pages
...parties, if the defendants be known, and if not, then such names as may be given by the complainant. 3d. A statement of the acts, constituting the offense in ordinary and concise language, and the time and place of the commission of the offense as near as may be. SEC. 4. The information may... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 910 pages
...jurisdiction of the court. Under the present system of practice, as regulated by the Criminal Code, it is essential that an indictment contain a statement of...offense in ordinary and concise language, and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended; and it must be direct... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 472 pages
...distinction between principals and accessories, nor to subvert the fundamental rule that the indictment shall contain " a statement of the acts constituting the offense in ordinary and concise language." VI. The robbery was not committed through any innocent or guilty agent of Chapman, nor by any other... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 542 pages
...specifying the name of the court to which the indictment is presented, and the names of the parties ; a statement of the acts constituting the offense in ordinary and concise language, and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended." Crim. Prac. Act,... | |
 | California - Criminal law - 1874 - 712 pages
...meat, what the Court to which the indictment is presented, and to contain, the names of the parties. 2. A statement of the acts constituting the offense,...language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended. of San Francisco. — People vs. Beatty, 14 Cal., p.... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 616 pages
...4659 of the Revision, when the act charged as the offense, is stated with such a degree of certainty, and in such manner, as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended, and the court to pronounce judgment. The State v. Schul, 27 Iowa, 263. 263. In an indictment for perjury... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 774 pages
...is objected that the indictment does not contain a statement of the acts constituting the supposed offense in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended; that it does not by direct averment charge that the... | |
 | California, Theodore Henry Hittell - Law - 1876 - 986 pages
...specifying the name of the court to which the indictment is presented, and the names of the parties; 2. A statement of the acts constituting the offense,...language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended. 13.951. Form of indictment. SEC. 951. It may be substantially... | |
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A statement of the acts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended. 
