Case Name: STATE against EMERY
Court: Vermont Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Vermont
Decision Date: 1816
Citations: 1 Brayt. 131
Docket Number: No. 1
Parties: STATE against EMERY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Brayton
Volume: 1
Pages: 131–131

Head Matter:
INDICTMENT.
No. 1.
STATE against EMERY.
Windham,
1816.

Opinion:
INDICTMENT for larceny, to wit, stealing bank bills, in which the bills are thus described i "two five dollar bank bills or notes, and one two dollar bank bill or note, of the value of twelve dollars of the goods and chattels," &c. Held bad on demurrer.-
The Indcitment ought to have stated the bills contained a promise to pay money, or perform some contract or argree? m.ent, under the Statute.