“Section 152(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act requires that the charge shall contain such particulars of, among other things, the thing, if any, in respect of which the offence was committed as are reasonably sufficient to give the accused notice of the matter with which he is charged, and Section 154(1) provides that the description of property shall be in ordinary language and such as to indicate with reasonable clearness the property referred to. It is fundamental that a charge of stealing should specify the property alleged to have been stolen with sufficient precision to comply with these two Sections. A possible test of whether a charge is sufficiently precise is, whether a good plea of autrefois convict or acquit could be founded on a conviction or acquittal on it, and while it may not be the only test we consider that it is one which every charge ought to satisfy.”
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