Case ID: minor_1/html/0062-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Goyne against Howell.
    
      June, 1822.
    In Trespass, afnot guilty? and two pleas of afcTofguiitylnd damages assess-are answered ”bdie verdict?
    cessar 'rtiaf the Recorci should set out that the Jury were sworn.
    IN trespass for an assault and battery, Goyne the defendant> plead not guilty: 2d. Son assault demesne. 3d. That he in defence of his father. Issues taken on all the P^eas- The entry of the verdict and judgment was: “ We “ the Jury find the defendant guilty, and assess the plaintiff’s “ damages to eighty-one dollars, with costs of suit. It is “ therefore considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover “ of the defendant eighty-one dollars, together with his costs “ of suit in this behalf expended.”
    
      Goyne assigned for Error
    1st, That the Record does not shew that the Jury were sworn. 2d, Two of the issues are not embraced by the vei’dict. 3d, The judgment does ^ appear fo fae founded onthe verdict
   By the Court.

The first assignment is understood to be abandoned ; a former decision of this Court has settled that it is not necessary that the Record should shew that the Jury were sworn, and that this- Court will not presume that they were not. As to the 2d assignment, the verdict applies equally'to the issues. The verdict, by finding the defendant guilty, has sufficiently negatived both the matters of justification which he pleaded. The 3d assignment cannot prevail. , The judgment follows the verdict, and in express words refers to what has immediately preceded.

Let the Judgment be affirmed.