State v. . Dickens

This is an indictment originally found in the county court, and brought hither by appeal. It is therefore entitled to the aid of the act of 1784, ch. 31, sec. 3, which directs that in all criminal prosecutions thereafter to be had by indictment or presentment in the county courts it shall be sufficient to all intents and purposes that the bill shall contain the charge against the criminal, expressed in a plain, simple, intelligible and explicit manner; and that no bill of indictment shall be quashed or judgment arrested for or by reason of any informalities or refinements, where there appears…