Case ID: dc_2/html/0439-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The CouRT", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. David Carr.
    In cases of misdemeanor, the Court in Alexandria will not compel the traverser to plead to the indictment, until a prosecutor’s name be indorsed; and the recognizance will be respited; unless the attorney of the United States shall satisfy the Court that it is a case which ought to be excepted out of the general rule.
    Indictment for selling spirituous liquors without license. No name of a prosecutor was written at the foot of the indictment, as required by the Virginia statute of November 13, 1792, c. 74, <§><§> 24, 25. Nor had the offence been presented by the grand jury, upon the knowledge of two of their body, nor upon the testimony of a witness called upon by the Court, or the grand jury, according to the provisions of the Virginia statute of December 2,1795, c. 188, § 2.
    
      Mr. Taylor, for the defendant,
    objected to pleading until a prosecutor’s name should be indorsed.
    
      Mr. Swann, for the United States,
    stated that the recognizance
    had been returned by a justice of the peace, with the names of the witnesses, and he sent them to the grand jury; and that he could satisfy the Court that it is a case which should be excepted out of the general rule, and a day was assigned to hear the witnesses. See the general rule of November term, 1807.
   The CouRT

(Thruston, J., absent,)

said that they would not compel the defendant to plead to the indictment until a prosecutor’s name should be indorsed, and that the recognizance should be respited.