ART. 27.] INDICTMENTS—OWNERSHIP—QUASHING. 553

Indictments—Statement of Ownership or Possession.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 30, sec 81 1852, ch. 63, sec. 1.

285. In any indictment for any felony or misdemeanor
wherein it shall be requisite to state the ownership or possession
of any property whatsoever, whether real or personal, which shall
belong to or be in the possession of more than one person,
whether such persons be partners in trade, joint tenants, par-
ceners, tenants in common or trustees, it shall be sufficient to name
one of such persons, and to state such property to belong to or be
in possession of the person so named, and another or others as the

case may be; and whenever in any indictment for any felony or
misdemeanor, it shall be necessary to mention for any purpose
whatever any partners, joint tenants, parceners, tenants in com-
mon or trustees, it shall be sufficient to describe them in the
manner aforesaid.

Indictments—Quashing—Arrest of Judgment.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 30, sec 82. 1852, ch 63, sec. 2.

286. No indictment or presentment for felony or misde-
meanor shall be quashed, nor shall any judgment upon any
indictment for any felony or misdemeanor, or upon any present-
ment, whether after verdict, by confession or otherwise, be
stayed or reversed for the want of a proper or perfect venue,
when the court shall appear by the indictment, inquisition

or presentment, or by the statement of the venue in the margin
thereof, to have jurisdiction over the offence, nor for the omission

or misstatement of the title, occupation or degree of the defen-
dant or other person or persons named in the said indictment,
inquisition or presentment, nor for the want of the averment of
any matter unnecessary to be proved, nor for the omission of the
words "as appears by the record," or of the words "with force
and arms," nor for the insertion of the words "against the form
of the statute," instead of "against the form of the statutes," or
vice versa, nor for omitting to state the time at which the
offence was committed in any case where time is not of the
essence of the offence, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor
for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subse.
quent to the finding of the indictment or making the presentment,
or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened, or by