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1 Tyl. 295

State v. G. S.

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided January 15, 1802

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1802-01-15

INDICTMENT for stealing one bushel of wheat in the chaff, on the second day of March, Anno Do-mini one thousand eight. Verdict guilty. In the copy delivered to the prisoner the year was rectified to one thousand eight hundred, and the defect ivas not noticed during the trial.

Decided 1802-01-15

The Chief Judge

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2The Court consider the indictment so radically defective, that no judgment of conviction can be rendered upon it. .

¶3Every sufficient indictment must set forth the day, month and year, and in cases of burglary the hour when the offence was committed; and though another day may be shewn in evidence on trial, yet it must be a day within the term prescribed by the statute of limitations, and the day set forth in the indictment must be also some day within the statute time, or the indictment will be insufficient.

¶4Judgment arrested, and the prisoner discharged.

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