LEGAL DOCUMENT

Case: State vs. Julius A. Pirlot; Same vs. Alexander A. Walter
Citation: 19 R.I. 695
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1897-01-22
Docket Number: 
Pages: 695–696
Volume: 19
Reporter: Rhode Island Reports

Parties: State vs. Julius A. Pirlot. Same vs. Alexander A. Walter.

State vs. Julius A. Pirlot. Same vs. Alexander A. Walter.
The rules of criminal pleading require that tlie offences be charged specifically, in order
First, that the accused may know precisely what he is to defend against; and
Second, that the record of his acquittal or conviction may be a bar to a subsequent prosecution for the same offence.
Demurrers to indictments. Certified from the Common Pleas Division.
Edward C. Dubois, Attorney General, for the State.
Cassius L. Eneeland & Arthur Cushing, for respondents.
January 22, 1897.

Per Curiam.
These indictments charge merely that the defendants ‘ ‘ did unlawfully practice medicine and surgery, for reward and compensation, against the form of the statutes,” &c., without setting forth in what the unlawfulness consisted. The rules of criminal pleading require that the offence shall be charged specifically, first, in order that the accused may know precisely what he is to defend against, and secondly, that the record of his acquittal or conviction may be a bar to'a subsequent prosecution for the same offence. State v. Doyle, 11 R. I. 574; State v. Smith, 17 R. I. 371.
Demurrers sustained, and case remitted to the Commpn Pleas Division with direction to quash.