926 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Indictments—Forgery and False Pretenses.

1688, art. 27, sec. 291. 1862, ch. 80.

443. 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 the intent to defraud, with-
out alleging the intent of the defendant to be to defraud any
particular person; and on the trial of any of the offenses 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, putting 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 averment in any
indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists
wholly or in part of writing, print or figures, it shall be suffi-
cient 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 any copy or fac-simile of the whole
or any part thereof.

Hawthorne v. State, 56 Md, 530. Jules v. State, 85 Md. 311.

Indictments—Robbery, Larceny, Embezzlement, False
Pretenses Relating to Money.

1898, ch. 120, sec. 291 A.

444. In every indictment for robbery, larceny or embezzle-
ment of any kind, when the offense shall relate to money, and
in every indictment for obtaining money by false pretenses or
for receiving stolen money, or for any kind of fraudulent con-
version of money, and in every other indictment, whenever it
shall become necessary to make any averment as to money, it
shall be sufficient to describe said money as so much current
money, or so many dollars, or dollars and cents current money,
without specifying any particular coins, or notes, or certificates,
circulating as money, or other species of money; and such
allegation, so far as regards the description of the money, shall
be sustained by proof of any amount of coin, or notes or cer-