 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 862 sider
...amount therein specified. That allegation, to use the language of the Statute of Minnesota, is expressed in ordinary and concise language, and in such a manner as to be easily understood, and that is all which is required by the law of the Territory prescribing the... | |
 | 1917 - 1350 sider
...person to whom the liquor was sold. The offense is charged substantially in the language of the statute and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended, and the accused to understand what he is called upon to answer, and with a sufficient degree of certainty to... | |
 | 1904 - 1076 sider
...our opinion, the count Is good In law. "Where the offense Is stated in plain and concise language 1ц such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what Is intended, and with a degree of certainty which will enable the court, upon conviction, to pronounce the proper judgment,... | |
 | 1910 - 1384 sider
...provisions: "The indictment must contain: * * • 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." Kirby's Dig. § 2243. "The indictment Is sufficient... | |
 | 1896 - 1254 sider
...provides: "The indictment must contain * * *; second, a statement of the acts constituting the offense, m ordinary and concise language, and In such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is Intended." Section 2074, Sand. & H. Dig., provides that: "The... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1918 - 638 sider
...person to whom the liquor was sold. The offense is charged substantially in the language of the statute and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended, and the accused to understand what he is called upon to answer, and with a sufficient degree of certainty to... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1888 - 716 sider
...the act charged as a crime " is clearly and distinctly set forth, in ordinary and concise language in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended;" and (2) that such act ' ' is stated with such a degree of certainly as to enable the court to pronounce... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1889 - 700 sider
...required by the statute. A statement in the indictment of the facts necessary to constitute the offence in ordinary and concise language, and in such a manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended, is all that is required. Mansfield's Digest, sees. 2106,... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1897 - 700 sider
...is presented and the names of the parties. Second. 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." ' That it must be direct and certain as regards: "First.... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1911 - 680 sider
...2242. "The indictment must contain * * * "Second. 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." Kirby's Dig., § 2243. The indictment in this case... | |
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Section 124 requires no more than that the indictment must be direct and certain as regards the offense charged. Subsection 2 of section 122 is as follows: "The indictment must contain • * * a statement of the acts constituting the offense, In ordinary... 
