State v. Cassel
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Error to Baltimore City Court, issued on the part of the state, for the removal of a criminal prosecution., The indictment was as follows: ‘.‘State of Maryland, city of Baltimore, to wit. The jurors of the state of Maryland for the body of the city of Baltimore, do on their oaths present, that John Cassei, late of the said city, yeoman, otherwise called Thomas Baker, together with Jacob IV.
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Error to Baltimore City Court, issued on the part of the state, for the removal of a criminal prosecution., The indictment was as follows: ‘.‘State of Maryland, city of Baltimore, to wit. The jurors of the state of Maryland for the body of the city of Baltimore, do on their oaths present, that John Cassei, late of the said city, yeoman, otherwise called Thomas Baker, together with Jacob IV. Callip, on the first day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, with force and arms, at the city aforesaid, one bank note for the payment twenty dollars, and of the value of…
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, J.
This ease comes up on a writ of error directed to Baltimore, city court; and the question presented for the adjudication of this c-urt, arises upon the sufficiency of the matters charged in the indict*410ment to sustain the prosecution. The grounds of the motion in arrest of judgment have been examined and carefully considered, and the result of our most mature deliberation, has been a conviction, that they did not warrant the judgment rendered in the court below. This is an indictment founded upon the act of 1809, ch. 138, commonly called the Penitentiary Law, which provides, that, larceny of…
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