United States v. Bornemann

The caption of the indictment commences as follows: “At a stated term of the said court, begun and holdenat the city and *825county of San Francisco, within and for the district of California, on the first Monday of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty^rc,” whereas it should have been eighty-eight, the word “five” by a clerical error having been written for the word “eight.” The oflense charged is alleged, in the body of the indictment, to have been committed on the 21st day of August, 1885, after the date when the grand jury is recited in the caption to have…