Case No. 16,163.

UNITED STATES v. RIGSBY.

[2 Cranch, C. C. 364.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

Nov. Term, 1822.

LARCENY—INDICTMENT.

In larceny, “one silver coin of the value of fifty cents,” is a sufficient description of the property stolen.

[Cited in Com. v. Gallagher, 82 Mass. (16 Gray) 240; Porter v. State, 26 Fla. 56, 7 South. 145.]

The defendant [Eliza Rigsby] was convinced of larceny.

Mr. Hewitt, for defendant, moved in arrest of judgment, that “one silver coin of the value of fifty cents of the goods and chattels of one John Kinchelow,” is too vague and uncertain a description of the property stolen. It does not state the value in the current money of the United States, or of any other country.

THE COURT (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent), after looking into precedents, overruled the motion.

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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