People v. Gregg
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from court of sessions, Columbia county. Indictment against Henry L. Gregg, mayor of the city of Hudson. The indictment charged that the said Henry L. Gregg did heretofore and previous to the finding of this indictment, at the city of Hudson in this county, willfully, fraudulently, and intentionally engage in the manufacture and sale of spirituous and malt liquors, ale, wine, and beer, while holding the office of mayor of the city of Hudson, and under the provisions…
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Appeal from court of sessions, Columbia county. Indictment against Henry L. Gregg, mayor of the city of Hudson. The indictment charged that the said Henry L. Gregg did heretofore and previous to the finding of this indictment, at the city of Hudson in this county, willfully, fraudulently, and intentionally engage in the manufacture and sale of spirituous and malt liquors, ale, wine, and beer, while holding the office of mayor of the city of Hudson, and under the provisions of chapter 468 of the Laws of 1872, as amended, known as the “City Charter,” and, acting as such, and as head of police…
1Opinion of the CourtMayham, J.
The technical, and in many instances prolix, forms of pleading in criminal actions or proceedings existing before the enactment of the Code of Criminal Procedure were by that instrument abolished, and the forms of pleadings in criminal actions, and the rules by which their sufficiency is to be determined, is now regulated by that enactment. Section 273; Code Grim. Proc. But this does not leave the pleader in criminal actions without well-defined rules by w&ich he must be governed, and the sufficiency of his pleadings determined. Section 275, Code Grim. Proc., prescribes what an indictment may…
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