Case Name: State vs. John Rollo
Court: Delaware Court of General Sessions
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1901-11-26
Citations: 3 Penne. 421
Docket Number: Indictment for Larceny No. 30
Parties: State vs. John Rollo.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 19
Pages: 421–423

Head Matter:
State vs. John Rollo.
Criminal Law—Larceny—Indictment; Sufficiency of— Corporation ; Property of; Name of—Pleading—Practice.
In an indictment for larceny, where the name of the corporation is stated as owner of the property, there need be no averment that it is a corporation.
(November 26, 1901.)
Lore, C. J., and Spruance and Grubb, J. J., sitting.
Herbert H Ward, Attorney-General, and Robert H. Richards, Deputy Attorney-General, for the State.
Robert Adair for the defendant.
Court of General Sessions, New Castle County,
November Term, 1901.
Indictment for Larceny (No. 30,
November Term, 1901).
The indictment charged, on August 1st, 1901, the larceny by the defendant of certain books, giving the value of the same, “ of the goods and chattels of the Wilmington Institute,” etc.
Adair,
for defendant, moved to quash the indictment as insufficient because it did not allege that the Wilmington Institute, whose property was alleged to have been stolen by the defendant, was a corporation or an association of persons, or indicate in any way what it was, and, furthermore, it did not aver the correct corporate name thereof.
Stadden vs. the People, 82 Ill., 432; People, vs. Boget, 36 Cal., 245.
Richards, Deputy Attorney- General;
Where the name of a corporation is stated as owner, there need be no averment that it is a corporation.
2 Bishop Crim. Prac., Sec. 718, p. 326; State vs. Fitzpatrick, 9 Houst., 385; State vs. Bench, 68 Mo., 78; Fisher vs. State, 40 N. J. L., 169; P. vs. McDonnell, 80 Cal., 285; 13 Am. St., 159; Stanley vs. Richmond &c. R, R., 89 N. C., 331; Hatfield vs. State, 76 Ga., 499; State vs. Grant, 104 N. C., 908; State vs. Shields, 89 Mo., 259; Braithwaite vs. State, 28 Neb., 832; Reg vs. Stokes, 8 C. & P., 151; 34 E. C. L., 333; Enc. P. & P., Vol. 12, p. 973; 2 Va. Cases, 296.
It is sufficient to allege and prove the name by which a corporation is generally known.
1 Thomp., 284—291; Rex vs. Atkinson, 2 Moody, 278.

Opinion:
Indictment sustained.
(The defendant thereupon entered a plea of guilty).