Hare v. State

Decision Date06 June 1853
Citation4 Ind. 241
PartiesHare v. The State
CourtIndiana Supreme Court

ERROR to the Jefferson Circuit Court.

The judgment is affirmed with costs.

J. W Chapman, for the plaintiff.

D. S Gooding, for the state.

OPINION

Stuart J.

Indictment for retailing.Trial by the Court; finding of guilty; motion for a new trial overruled; and judgment for the state.The evidence is embodied in a bill of exceptions.

Here, as in Divine v. The State, ante, p. 240, no price is alleged.A motion to quash, made in time, must have prevailed.If, however, a defendant, either from negligence or policy, seek first the chances of a verdict, he ought not, afterwards, especially on motion for a new trial, to be permitted to fall back on the defects of the indictment.And this the more, since he has taken pains to set out all the evidence, and thus show that the defect of allegation was supplied.

It is not very clear that a motion in arrest of judgment would avail him.In The State v. Murphy, on a charge of felony, this doctrine is incidentally recognized.The motion made was in arrest of judgment--the appropriate one to test the sufficiency of the pleadings.Yet the Court held that the defect objected to was not sufficient to arrest the judgment, though it might have been a good cause for a motion made, in proper time, to quash the indictment.8 Blackf. 498.

The motion for a new trial does not go to the indictment.In the absence of any other specified cause, it is...

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  • Nichols v. The State
    • United States
    • Indiana Supreme Court
    • February 25, 1891
    ... ... State, supra; McCool v ... State, 23 Ind. 127; State v ... Noland, 29 Ind. 212; Gillett Crim. Law, 562; ... Bicknell Crim. Practice, 310; State v ... Murphy, 8 Blackf. 498; Peters v ... Banta, 120 Ind. 416, 22 N.E. 95; Colchen v ... Ninde, 120 Ind. 88, 22 N.E. 94; Hare v ... State, 4 Ind. 241 ...          Section ... 1891, R. S. 1881, provides that "In the consideration of ... the questions which are presented upon an appeal, the Supreme ... Court shall not regard technical errors or defects or ... exceptions to any decision or action of the ... ...
  • City of Cannelton v. Collins
    • United States
    • Indiana Supreme Court
    • April 21, 1909
    ...uniformly held an allegation of the price or consideration indispensable in charging a sale of liquor. Divine v. State, 4 Ind. 240;Hare v. State, 4 Ind. 241;State v. Miles, 4 Ind. 577;Brutton v. State, 4 Ind. 601;Miles v. State, 5 Ind. 215;Segur v. State, 6 Ind. 451;State v. Downs, 7 Ind. 2......
  • City of Cannelton v. Collins
    • United States
    • Indiana Supreme Court
    • April 21, 1909
    ...held an allegation of the price or consideration indispensable in charging a sale of liquor. Divine v. State (1853), 4 Ind. 240; Hare v. State (1853), 4 Ind. 241; State v. Miles (1853), 4 Ind. Brutton v. State (1853), 4 Ind. 601; Miles v. State (1854), 5 Ind. 215; Segur v. State (1855), 6 I......
  • State v. Allen
    • United States
    • Indiana Appellate Court
    • May 14, 1895
    ...pleading to allege conclusions, and leave the facts to inference." This decision has been frequently followed by the Supreme Court. Hare v. State, 4 Ind. 241; v. Miles, 4 Ind. 577; Brutton v. State, 4 Ind. 601; Miles v. State, 5 Ind. 215; Segur v. State, 6 Ind. 451; State v. Downs, 7 Ind. 2......
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