Legal Opinion

Berrian v. State

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided January 15, 1849Published

This cause was removed into this court, from the Middlesex Oyer and Terminer, by writ of error. The record sent up with the writ of error is as follows: State of New Jersey, Middlesex county, to wit: — Be it remembered, that at a session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, hólden at New Brunswick, in and for the said county of Middlesex, on Tuesday the seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, (it…

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This cause was removed into this court, from the Middlesex Oyer and Terminer, by writ of error. The record sent up with the writ of error is as follows: State of New Jersey, Middlesex county, to wit: — Be it remembered, that at a session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, hólden at New Brunswick, in and for the said county of Middlesex, on Tuesday the seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, (it being the third Tuesday of November in the year aforesaid) before the Honorable James S. Nevius, associate justice of…

1Opinion of the CourtGreen, C. J.

The writ of error in this-cause removes into this court, from the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery of the county of Middlesex, the record of conviction of the plaintiff in error upon an indictment for perjury. The importance of the cause, and the learning and research which characterized the argument, demands at the hands of the court a careful examination of the numerous objections assigned for error, and discussed upon the argument. In performing this duty, I-shall consider the several objections, iu the order in which they were presented upon the argument by the counsel…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. HodgedenSupreme Court of Vermont · 1831
  2. State v. RaifordSupreme Court of Alabama · 1838

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