People v. Briggs
Supreme Court Of The Territory Of Dakota
Writ of Error to the TanMon County District Court. The defendant was on the fourth day of May, 1876, indicted in the District Court charged with the offense of keeping a house of ill-fame, and on the 11th day of the same month a warrant was issued on which she was arrested.
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Writ of Error to the TanMon County District Court. The defendant was on the fourth day of May, 1876, indicted in the District Court charged with the offense of keeping a house of ill-fame, and on the 11th day of the same month a warrant was issued on which she was arrested. On the same day of her arrest a complaint was filed with the city justice charging her with the same offense.; to this complaint defendant appeared, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine and the costs. When arraigned on the indictment on the 13th day of May she pleaded a former trial and conviction, and on the…
1Opinion of the CourtBabNes, J.
The indictment in this cause was found and presented May 4th,A. D. 1876; May 10th, 1876, warrant of , arrest delivered to sheriff; May 11th, 1876, defendant arrested; and on May 13th, 1876, defendant pleaded a former trial, conviction, judgment, for the. same offense before one Ross-teuscher, a city justice.
In the proceedings before the city justice as appears by the. record, the complaint was sworn to May 10th, 1876. It is, however, conceded upon the hearing, and such was the evidence- in'the court below, that the complaint before the city justice was not in fact made and sworn to before…
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