244 N.C. App. 742 - State v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “In every indictment in which it is necessary to make any averment as to the larceny of any money, or United States treasury note, or any note of any bank whatsoever, it is sufficient to describe such money, or treasury note, or bank note, simply as money, without specifying any particular coin, or treasury note, or bank note; and such allegation, so far as regards the description of the property, shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin, or treasury note, or bank note, although the particular species of coin, of which such amount was composed, or the particular nature of the treasury note, or bank note, shall not be proven.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 N.C. App. 803 - State v. Mostafavi · State v. Crowder

2. “[t]he Court failed to look to [ N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15-149 ] when deciding Smith . The Court quoted Reese , but failed to follow Reese as a whole by not considering the statute governing the description of money in indictments.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 N.C. App. 803 - State v. Mostafavi · State v. Crowder

3. “is sufficient suggests that term is enough to put a defendant on notice of the property obtained in order to prepare for his or her trial. Here, we have an indictment describing the property as”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 N.C. App. 803 - State v. Mostafavi · State v. Crowder