State v. Rockafellow
Supreme Court of New Jersey
ON AN INDICTMENT FOR A RAFE. An indictment had been found against the prisoner at the Hunterdon assizes, in February term last, which had been removed into this court by the Attorney General by certiorari. The prisoner being arraigned, tendered in propria persona, the following plea in writing.
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ON AN INDICTMENT FOR A RAFE. An indictment had been found against the prisoner at the Hunterdon assizes, in February term last, which had been removed into this court by the Attorney General by certiorari. The prisoner being arraigned, tendered in propria persona, the following plea in writing. And the said Christopher Bockafellow, in his own proper person comes, and having heard the aforesaid indictment read, and protesting that he is not guilty of the premises charged in the said indictment, for plea nevertheless saith, that he ought not to be compelled to answer the said indictment,…
1Opinion of the Court 1
Kinsey C. J.
delivered the opinion of the court. Without a legal presentment, no man can, under our administration of the laws, he tried for any heinous offence; and certainly without such legal presentment, he ought not to be called upon to answer a charge, by which he is accused of one of the enormous crimes known in our law.. The legislature have been of the same opinion, and have thought proper particularly to specify the requisites which it shall be necessary for the persons, who execute the functions of grand jurors, to possess. By the 2d section of the law in question, (Allinson 24) it…
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