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23 Tenn. 429

State v. Priddy

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1844

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1844-04-15

At the November term, 1842, of the Circuit- Court of Henderson county, the grand jury returned a presentment, which charged, that James Priddy, Granville Priddy, James Ray and W. Eubanks, within the county of Henderson, on 25th day of July, 1842, “with force and arms, being unlawfully assembled together, and arrayed in warlike manner, then and there, in a public place, unlawfully and to the great terror and disturbance of all the good citizens of said State, then and there…

Decided 1844-04-15

GreeN, J.

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The indictment in this case charges, that the defendants “did make an affray,” without alleging the facts which constitute an affray.

¶3It is insisted, that as an affray can only be made, by two or more fighting together in a public place, the charge, that the parties “made an affray,” includes necessarily, a charge, that they fought together in a public place. But this is no answer to the objection. The word “affray” is the technical designation of the crime constituted by the facts of two or more per*430sons fighting together in a public.place, — and these facts, not the legal conclusions from them, — must be charged in the indictment. Upon this point, the case of Simpson vs. The State, 5 Yerg. R. 356, is conclusive authority.

¶4Let the judgment be affirmed.

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