| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 840 pages
...indictment is sufficient, if it can be understood therefrom that the act or omission charged as the offense is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce judgment, on conviction, according to the right of the case. The court can certainly do this without the insertion... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...is sufficient if it can be understood therefrom : That the act or omission, charged as an offense, is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce judgment on conviction, according to the rights of the case. In this, and in other similar provisions, the legislature... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 752 pages
...prior to the time of finding the indictment. Third. That the act or omission charged as ,the offense, is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce judgment on conviction, according to the right of the case." Thi'3 indictment is not susceptible to objection... | |
| New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...common understanding to know what is intended ; 7. That the act or omission, charged as the offence, is stated with such a degree of -certainty, as to...a conviction, according to the right of the case. Seventh ; — The indictment shall not be deemed insufficient, nor -shall the trial, judgment or other... | |
| California, Selucius Garfielde, Frederick A. Snyder - Law - 1853 - 1108 pages
...common understanding to know what is intended. 7th. That the act or omission charged as the offence is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable...conviction according to the right of the case. SEC. 247. No indictment shall be deemed insufficient, nor shall the trial, judgment, or other proceeding... | |
| Oregon - Law - 1855 - 670 pages
...common understanding to know what is intended; 7. That the act or omission charged as the offence, is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable...a conviction, according to the right of the case. ™tu-™ '"f SEC. 13. No indictment shall be deemed insufficient, nor shall fo™i:(le(lhow the trial,... | |
| William H. R. Wood - Law - 1857 - 834 pages
...of common understanding to know what is intended. 7. That the act or omission charged as the offense case.(l) ART. 1542, Sec. 247. No indictment shall be deemed insufficient, nor shall the trial, judgment... | |
| District of Columbia - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...plain and concise language, without repetition, and with such a degree of certainty that the court may pronounce judgment upon a conviction, according to the right of the case. SEC. 38. No indictment or information shall be quashed or set aside for any of the following defects : 1.... | |
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