State v. English

Tompkins, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.*

English was indicted for exchanging on the 1st of April, 1828, one gallon of spirituous liquors with an Indian, for a gun. The hill was found at the August term of the year 1829. The jury also find in these words, that “ at a Circuit Court held for the county of Clay on the 25th of November, 1828, being within the space of one year from and after the commission of the offence aforesaid, by him the said Charles English, the grand jurors of the county of Clay found a bill of indictment against him, the said Charles, charging him with the same…