Legal Opinion
Patterson v. State
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 15, 1886PublishedCited by 10 opinions
In error to the Monmouth Quarter Sessions.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel, J.
The defendant below was convicted in the Monmouth Quarter Sessions of forgery. During the progress of the trial many exceptions were taken for alleged errors in the proceedings, which constitute the grounds upon which a reversal of judgment is asked for.
*383In the early days of English criminal jurisprudence, when even a trifling larceny was punishable with death, there was reason why the judicial mind should exhaust its ingenuity in aid of the defence, and seize upon every technicality to avert from the prisoner a punishment so…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Commonwealth v. PiperMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- State v. AllenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
- Bird v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1853
- Ware v. WareSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1831
- United States v. LougheryU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York · 1876
3Cited by10 opinions
- State v. JohnsonNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1961
- Morgan v. Sun Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
- Schrimpsher v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1925
- Kokinda v. CartyNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1954
- Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1913
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