Traitorously
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
pleadings. This is a technical word which is essential in an indictment for treason in order to charge the crime, and which cannot be supplied by any other word, or any kind of circumlocution. Having been well jatd in the statement of the treason itself, it is not necessary to state every overt act to have been traitorously committed.
Vide Bac. Ab. Indict ment, G 1; Com. Dig. Indictment, G 6; Hawk. B. 2, c. 25, s. 55; 1 C. C. 37; Carth. 319; 2 Salk. 683; 4 Harg. St. Tr. 701; 2 Ld. Raym. 870; Comb. 259; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 104, note (d).