Thomas v. State

Decided November 15, 1897

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1897-11-15

Tried before the Hon. O. J. Semmes. The appellants were tried and convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Henry Thomas, alias Henry Thomason and Gertrude Tolliver, feloniously took one ten dollar bill, one two dollar bill, and a one dollar bill, all of said bills being paper money of the currency of the United States of America, the property of Frank Milner, from his person and against his…

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Decided 1897-11-15

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Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1959

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McCLELLAN, J.

¶1We regard it as settled by the decisions of this court that the description of property alleged to have been taken and carried away as “one ten dollar bill, one two dollar bill and a oue dollar bill,.all of said bills being paper money of the currency of the United States of America,” is entirely sufficient in and of itself both as to identity and as to value. — Thompson v. State, 106 Ala. 67; Carden v. State, 89 Ala. 130; Levy v. State, 79 Ala. 259; Grant v. State, 55 Ala. 201; Sallie v. State, 39 Ala. 691.

¶2Affirmed.