People v. Jones

The prisoner was tried and convicted upon an indictment for robbery at the Otsego sessions in the month of September, 1869. Upon the certificate of the county judge, judgment was suspended upon the conviction and the case is brought here by certiorari for review. One of the counts contained in the indictment was quashed upon the ground that it charged no offence against the prisoner. The other count upon which the conviction was had, after alleging a felonious assault upon the person of one Burton, and *341that the prisoner put him in bodily fear and danger of his life, charged that, from…