1 Tapp. Rep. 171
Belmont County Court of Common Pleas
Decided August 15, 1817
Belmont County Court of Common Pleas · decided 1817-08-15
The indictment contained three counts. The prisoner was acquitted on the first and third counts, and found guilty on the 2d, which charged, “that Asa Davis, late of, &c., being a wicked and evil disposed person, on the first day of August, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, at Belmont county aforesaid, wickedly and corruptly contriving and intending to inveigle and seduce one Isaac Vandyne, to join him, the said Asa, in uttering and passing false, forged and…
Decided 1817-08-15
¶1The counsel agreeing, the cause was continued to the next term, to argue the motion in arrest; but the prisoner having escaped, no argument was had or opinion given.
¶2The question, whether soliciting and inciting another, to commit a felony, is an indictable offence, is considered and decided in The King vs. Higgins, 2d East, 5th — see, also, Foster, 195, 125 — 2d Show., 1 — 2d Ld. Rayn., 1167 — 2d Ld. Rayn., 1377 — 2d Burr, 2494 — Fitzg., 263 — and 6th East, 464.