Gray v. People

Ingalls, J.:

The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the crime of forgery, on the 22d day of May, 1819, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison for the term of ten years. The indictment was found in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the city and county of New York, in December, 1869 ; and the prisoner was arraigned in that court, and interposed to the indictment a plea of not guilty. The indictment was sent to the Court of Oyer and Terminer for trial, and after conviction the prisoner moved in arrest of judgment…