Mackey v. State

The plaintiff in error pleaded guilty to an indictment found in M.onroe county, charging him with aiding, assisting, and procuring one Thomas Mackey to utter a “ false, forged, and counterfeited bank-note,” set forth in the indictment, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary.

To reverse the judgment, he sued out of the district court a writ of error to the court of common pleas, and assigned for errors :

1. The indictment is defective in purporting to be the act of the “ grand jurors of the State of Ohio.”

2. It charges the bank-note to have been “false, forged, and…