In any indictment for forging, uttering, stealing, embezzling, destroying or concealing, or for obtaining by color of any false token, writing, or false pretenses, any instrument or property, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument or property by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile thereof, or otherwise describing the same, or the value thereof.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 545.180
Certain indictments, what designation sufficient
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 3945); Prior revisions: 1929 § 3556; 1919 § 3901; 1909 § 5108
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.