Mount v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 29 — INDICTMENT cited 1 Rev. Stat., 388, 469 ; Wharton’s Am. Crim. Law, 584 ; 4 Bos. P., 92 ; 2 Leigh., 745; 1 Russell on Crime, 85 ; 2 Phill. Ev., 462, and notes ; 3 Archhold, 577 ; 2 Humph., 78.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Duvall
This appeal is prosecuted by John Mount to reverse a judgment of the Kenton circuit court, sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for two years, for the alleged offense of tendering in payment an altered bank bill.
In the progress of the trial various exceptions were taken to the rulings of the court in the admission of evidence objected to by the defendant, and in giving and refusing instructions to the jury. The motion of the defendant for a new trial having been overruled, he moved in arrest of judgment on the ground that the indictment was insufficient; but the court overruled…
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