Legal Opinion

Fuller v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided July 22, 1820PublishedCited by 8 opinions

ERROR to the Dearborn Circuit Court. — This was an indictment for murder. Plea, the general issue. The jury found the prisoner guilty •, and sentence of death was accordingly pronounced against him.

1Opinion of the CourtBlackford, J.

There are many errors assigned, all of which have been carefully examined. It cannot, however, be expected, that particular notice should be taken of each of them, in the opinion about to he delivered. The following points, noted in their brief by the counsel for the plaintiff in error, were principally relied upon in the argument of this very important cause.

First. “The indictment.is not good, because it purports to have been found by a grand jury of the Dearborn Circuit; and because the record does not show that they were good and lawful men.”

The commencement of the indictment is as…

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Marine Ins. Co. of Alexandria v. HodgsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1810

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Jenks v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1872
  2. McNealy v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1879
  3. Provisional Government v. GertzHawaii Supreme Court · 1893
  4. State v. FlaniginSupreme Court of Alabama · 1843
  5. Bartel v. TiemanIndiana Supreme Court · 1876

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