ART. 27.] INDICTMENTS—FORGERY—FALSE PRETENCES. 555

lotteries or the selling of lottery tickets or other device in the-
nature thereof, it shall not be necessary to set forth the particular
kind of gaming or gaming table, or to set forth the particular
scheme of lottery, but it shall be sufficient if the indictment sets
forth that the defendant kept a "gaming table," or that "he drew
a lottery," or sold "a lottery ticket," as the case may be; but the
defendant may by application to the State's attorney, obtain a
statement more particularly describing the offence intended to be
proved under such indictment.
Hammond v. State, 14 Md. 147.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 86 1785, ch. 80, sec. 4. 1852, ch. 176, sec. 2.

290. All indictments under the preceding section may be
amended at any time before verdict so as to present properly the
merits of the charge; and the court may permit such amendment
after the jury is sworn, and proceed with the trial, or the court
may, in its discretion, allow a juror to be withdrawn and continue
the cose.

Indictments-Forgery and False Pretenses.

1862, ch 80.

291. It shall be sufficient in any indictment for forging, utter-
ing, disposing of, putting off or passing any instrument whatso-
ever, or for obtaining any property by false pretenses, to allege
that the defendant did the act with intent to defraud, without
alleging the intent of the defendant to be to defraud any partic-
ular person; and on the trial of any of the offences in this section
mentioned, it shall not be necessary to prove an intent on the part
of the defendant to defraud any particular person, but it shall be
sufficient to prove that the defendant did the act charged with an
intent to defraud. In any indictment for forging, altering, put-
ting off, passing, stealing, embezzling, destroying or for obtaining
by false pretenses any instrument, it shall be sufficient to describe
such instrument by any name or designation by which the same
may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting
out a copy or fac-simile thereof, or otherwise describing the same.
In all other cases, whenever it shall be necessary to make any aver-
ment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether the same
consists wholly or in part of writing, print or figures, it shall be