State v. Lennon

The defendant, Charles Lennon, having been convicted of inveigling slaves, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for six years, has appealed from the judgment of the Criminal Court, and seeks to have it reversed, and himself finally discharged, on the ground, that the instrument purporting to be an indictment against him, consists of two counts, written upon, two separate and detachéd pieces of paper, one count being upon each. That the first contains the usual caption, but is not signed by the attorney general or district attorney, nor endorsed with' the finding of the grand jury. That…