Hunter v. United States

In the above entitled cause the grand jury in and for the county of Iowa, at the April term of the district court for said county for 1839, found a bill of indictment against Hunter for adultery. He appeared and filed a general demurrer, which was by the court overruled and the defendant adjudged guilty as charged in the indictment; whereupon, for the purpose of transmitting this cause to this court for a decision upon alleged error therein, it was agreed that final judgment should not then be pronounced.

The court here is given to understand by the parties that the ground of objection argued…