Section 767.61 - Indictment; description of money, bonds, mortgage and similar instrument in offense relating thereto.
THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (EXCERPT)
Act 175 of 1927
767.61 Indictment; description of money, bonds, mortgage and similar instrument in offense relating thereto.
Sec. 61.
In an indictment for larceny, larceny by conversion, embezzlement, robbery, obtaining money by false pretenses, receiving stolen property or for any other criminal conversion or misappropriation where the offense relates to money or currency, it shall be sufficient to describe the same under the terms “money”, “currency”, or “dollars” without specifying the particular character, number, denomination, kind, species, nature or value thereof. Where such indictment relates to promissory notes, certificates of stock, bonds, bills of lading, mortgages or any other negotiable or non-negotiable instruments, or securities or evidence of debt or property, it is sufficient to designate the same by general description without specifying the particular number or denomination thereof.
History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17275 ;-- CL 1948, 767.61
Former Law: See section 15 of Act 77 of 1855, being CL 1857, § 6061; CL 1871, § 7930; How., § 9541; CL 1897, § 11926; and CL 1915, § 15753.