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Section 15-8-22 General terms used for special statutory terms.

Section 15-8-22

General terms used for special statutory terms.

When a statute creating or defining an offense uses special or particular terms, an indictment on it may use the general term which, in common language, embraces the special term.

(Code 1852, §571; Code 1867, §4121; Code 1876, §4794; Code 1886, §4372; Code 1896, §4900; Code 1907, §7138; Code 1923, §4533; Code 1940, T. 15, §236.)