Section 767.50 - Indictment; description of instrument. - Michigan Statutes

THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (EXCERPT)
Act 175 of 1927

767.50 Indictment; description of instrument.

Sec. 50.

Whenever in an indictment an allegation relative to any instrument which consists wholly or in part of writing or figures, pictures or designs, is necessary, it is sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or description by which it is usually known or by its purport without setting forth a copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17264 ;-- CL 1948, 767.50
Former Law: See section 10 of Act 77 of 1855, being CL 1857, § 6056; CL 1871, § 7925; How., § 9536; CL 1897, § 11921; and CL 1915, § 15748.