Missouri Laws 545.180 – Certain indictments, what designation sufficient
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 545.180
- Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
In any indictment for forging, uttering, stealing, embezzling, destroying or concealing, or for obtaining by color of any false token, writing, or false pretenses, any instrument or property, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument or property by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile thereof, or otherwise describing the same, or the value thereof.