Case ID: shan-cas_1/html/0004-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Turley, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE STATE v. WILLIAM BROWN.
    (S. C., Thomp. Cas., 20.)
    Knoxville,
    September Term, 1847.
    ABBREVIATIONS. A and B for assault and battery.
    The letters A and B placed at the head of the entry of record of the fact of the grand jury’s return of an indictment for assault and battery show that offense with sufficient certainty. [See State v. Kittrell, 7 Bax., 167.]
    In this case, the clerk of the circuit court in entering upon the record the fact of the return by the grand jury of an indictment against the defendant for assault and battery, omitted to state the offense charged in the indictment, except by the letters A and B placed at the head of the entry. Upon this ground, the court below arrested judgment after conviction, and the attorney-general for the state appealed.
   Turley, J.:

The entry shows the fact of the finding' of a bill for assault and battery with sufficient certainty. The judgment of the circuit court will be reversed, and a fine of five dollars entered against the defendant.

Judgment reversed.