545.210. Money or note, how described. - Missouri Statutes

Money or note, how described.

545.210. In every indictment in which it shall be necessaryto make any averment as to any money or any note, being orpurporting to be made or issued by any bank incorporated by law,or made or issued by virtue of any law of the United States, itshall be sufficient to describe such money or note simply asmoney, without specifying any particular coin or note; and suchallegation shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin, orof any such note, although the particular species of coin ofwhich such amount was composed, or the particular nature of suchnote, shall not be proved; and in cases of larceny, embezzlementand obtaining money or such notes by false pretenses, by proofthat the offender stole, embezzled or obtained any piece of coin,or any such note, or any portion of the value thereof, althoughsuch piece of coin or such note may have been delivered to him,in order that some part of the value thereof should be returnedto the party delivering the same or to any other person, and suchpart shall have been returned accordingly.

(RSMo 1939 § 3948)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3559; 1919 § 3904; 1909 § 5111