Goodman v. . Armistead

The evidence that defendant was summoned was a subpoena, perfect in all its parts, and regular, save that the year in which it issued was not named; it being tested "the 7th day of April in the XLV year of our Independence, Anno Dom. 182 — ." This subpoena was returned by the sheriff "Executed." The only objection taken to this subpoena is the omission of the date of the year of our Lord, or, rather, the omission of the unit figure; but as the forty-fifth year of the independence is inserted, there can be no difficulty in ascertaining the other period. In England the year of the king's reign…