State v. McDaniel
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
The defendants were indicted at the May Term, 1902, for obtaining- money BY false pbetenses. The indictment contained two counts.
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The defendants were indicted at the May Term, 1902, for obtaining- money BY false pbetenses. The indictment contained two counts. The first count was as follows : “The Grand Inquest of the State of Deleware and the Body of New Castle County, on their oath and affirmation, respectively, do present : “That Samuel A. McDaniel, of the Hundred of New Castle, Harvey B. Wigglesworth, of the Hundred of Wilmington, and Walter Bash, of the Hundred of Wilmington, all in the County of New Castle and the State of Delaware, on the 31st of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, at…
1Opinion of the Court
Lore, C. J.:
—The Court are unanimously of the opinion, under the circumstances of this case and in view of the statute cited by Mr. Cooper—and by that parity of reasoning applying it to this case—that we ought not to continue this case to the next term.
(The Attorney-General thereupon entered a nolle prosequi as to each of the said defendants.)
2Cited by3 opinions
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- State v. McCollomNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1918