People v. Leggett
New York Supreme Court
Demurrer to pleas. The action was debt on a criminal recognizance. The facts set forth in the pleadings, and the questions of law raised by the demurrer, appear from the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Gridley, J.
In this case all the questions which arise upon the pleas to which demurrers have been put in, have been decided by the late supreme court, upon a demurrer to the declaration. The declaration is founded upon a recognizance dated on the 10th day of March, 1846,. executed in the county of Niagara and acknowledged before the Hon, Nathan Dayton, circuit judge, conditioned that one Gabriel Leggett, who (as it was recited in the condition) stood indicted by a presentation made by the grand jury of Jefferson county, at the February term of the court of general sessions of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People v. KaneNew York Supreme Court · 1847
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