Brittin v. Chegary
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This was a case certified from the Circuit Court of the county of Morris. The action was originally commenced by attachment, but the attachment was dissolved, saving all liens., by the defendant; who gave bond pursuant to the statute, appeared, accepted a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, and pleaded ¡«hereto.
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This was a case certified from the Circuit Court of the county of Morris. The action was originally commenced by attachment, but the attachment was dissolved, saving all liens., by the defendant; who gave bond pursuant to the statute, appeared, accepted a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, and pleaded ¡«hereto. The claim of the plaintiff, so far as is necessary to be here stated, was founded on a promissory note made and given to him by the defendant, bearing date the 23d of September, 1840, for $95.-22, and payable in one year after date. The defendant set up as a defence, that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Carpenter J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes up unaccompanied by any statement of the facts proved at the trial in support of the defence set up by the defendant; our inquiry therefore is simply as to the abstract propriety of the charge of the judge to the jury, upon the points excepted to. The point pressed on the argument, and it appears to me to be the only point really brought into question, is in relation to what constitutes the offence of compounding a felony, or other criminal offence; in the present case, what constitutes the offence of compounding the crime of…
2Cited by1 opinion
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