The pleader, in drawing an indictment, must state the place where it is said the crime was committed; but alleging that it was committed in the county, in and for which the grand jury is sitting, and acting, is sufficient without any particular designation of the precise locality.37 If the indictment be preceded by the proper clause stating the venue or place in the margin in the usual way, then the statement of the county in the body of the indictment may be by using the word "said" or "aforesaid"; thus, County of Cook, aforesaid, or county aforesaid.38 But where an act becomes an offense only when done in some particular place, the indictment or information must state the particular place, otherwise it will be defective.39

33 Miller vs. People, 39 Ill., 463;

Gahan vs. People, 58 Ill., 160;

Com. vs. Buckley, 145 Mass., 181; Tucker vs. People, 122

Ill., 583. 34 Little vs. People, 157 Ill., 156;

Thompson vs. State, 48 Ala., 166. 35 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 2747;

Vandermark vs. People, 47

Ill., 124; State vs. Skinner, 76 Iowa, 147. 36 3 Greenl. Ev , Secs. 22-152. 37 State vs. Sneed, 16 Lea (Tenn.), 450; Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec.

2739. 38 Hanrahan vs. People, 91 Ill., 144; Noe vs. People, 39 EL, 97. 39 State vs. Tumbull, 78 Me., 392.