Case ID: f-cas_26/html/0915-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 15,591a.
    UNITED STATES v. LEMMONS.
    [Hempst. 62.] 
    
    Superior Court, Territory of Arkansas.
    Oct., 1828.
    Indictment—Conclusion.
    An indictment must conclude “against the peace and dignity of the United States.”
    Indictment [against James Lemmons] for setting up and keeping a faro bank.
    Before JOHNSON, ESKRIDGE, TRIMBLE, and BATES, JJ.
    
      
       [Reported by Samuel H. Hempstead, Esq.]
    
   On motion of the defendant, by his attorney, the indictment was quashed, because it did not conclude “against the peace and dignity of the United States of America.”