State v. Jacobs

Indictment for horse racing.

(Note. — The foreman of the grand jury was one of the defendants; and the court, on being informed by the grand jury that they were considering a bill in which he was implicated, appointed another foreman, and gave him leave to retire.)

The indictment in this case was under the act of assembly, and laid the offence in the different counts for instituting, being, concerned in, and betting on a horse-race; on the 19th and 20th of October, 1837. The grand jury met on the 9th April, 1838, and the indictment was found on the 11th April.

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