Lambert v. People
New York Supreme Court
On errror from the court of oyer and terminer of the city 0f New York, that court returned a record in these words: City and County of New York, ss: " Be it remembered, that on the 1st Monday of August, A. D., 1826, at a court of general sessions of the peace, Golden at the city hall of the city of New York, in and ^or ^7 and county of New York, before Bichard Biker, recorder of the city of New York, and Campbell B- White and John Agnew, two of the aldermen of the c^7> and…
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On errror from the court of oyer and terminer of the city 0f New York, that court returned a record in these words: City and County of New York, ss: " Be it remembered, that on the 1st Monday of August, A. D., 1826, at a court of general sessions of the peace, Golden at the city hall of the city of New York, in and ^or ^7 and county of New York, before Bichard Biker, recorder of the city of New York, and Campbell B- White and John Agnew, two of the aldermen of the c^7> and others, their associates, justices of the people of the state of New York,' assigned to keep the peace of the said city…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court,
(without assigning their reasons at large,) decided that the indictment lay; that it was sufficient in form; and that there was no ground for reversing the judgment of the court below, on account of any formal defect in the record. They overruled all the objections of the plaintiff in error; and
The judgment below was affirmed.[1]
This decision was reversed in the court for the correction of errors (9 Cowen’s Rep. 578,) by the casting vote of the president; but whether on the ground that conspiracy to defraud an individual was not indictable, or because the indictment was defective in…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- May v. PeopleNew York Supreme Court · 1877