The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-24
An Old Style Indictment.

The jury in the case of Charles K.
Lands, charged with the murder Of
Uri Carruth at Cum berland, N. J.,
last week, reported that they could
not agree, but the Judge sent them
back to ponder while longer. The
following is the Indictment upon
which he was tried, which will be re-
gsrded a curiosity by our legal friends
here, but it is the prevailing form in
New Jersey. We hardly see how the
Jury could fail to disagree with such
an indictment before them:
Cumberland County, tO-wit: The
grand inquest for the State OF New
Jersey, and for the body OF the county
of Cumberland upon their respective
oaihs, Present, that Charles K. Lam
dis, late of the Township of Lands
in the County of Cumberland, gen.
tleman, not having the fear of God
before his eyes, but being moved and
seduced by the instigation of the
devil, on the nineteenth day of March
in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five, with
force Of arms, at the Township OF
Lands, in the County OF ofCumberland,
and within the Jurisdiction of this
court, in and upon one Uri Carruth,
in the peace of God aud this
State there and then being
feloniously, willfully, and of his
malice afOrethought, did make an
assault, and that the said Charles K.
Lands, a certain pistol of the value
of ten dollars, then and there charged
with gunpowder and one leaden bull
let, which said pistol, he, the said
Charles x. Lands, in his right hand
then and there held, then aud there
feloniously, willfully, and OF his
malice aforetheught, did discharge
and shoot off, to, against, and upon
the said Charles K. lands, with the
leaden bullet aforesaid, out OF the pis-
tol aforesaid, then and there by the
force Of the gunpowder aforesaid, by
the said Charles X. Lands, discharged
and shot of, as aforesaid, then and
there feloniousIy, willfully, and OF his
malice aforethought, did strike,
penetrate and wound him, the said
Uri Carruth, In and upon the back OF
head Of him, the said Uri Carruth,
giving him, the said Uri Carrutb,
then and there, with the leaden bul-
let aforesaid so as aforesaid discharged
and shot out of the pistol aIoresaid by
the said Charlez x. Lands, in and up-
on the back OF the lead Of him, the
said Uri Carruth, one mortal WOUND,
of the depth Of one and quarter
inches, and of the breadth Of one half
an inch-of which said mortal wound,
the said Uri Carruth, from the said
nineteenth day of March, in the
year Aforesaid, until the twenty-fourtb
day of October, in the same year, at
the township of Lands, in the county
and within the Jurisdiction Aforesaid,
did languish, and languishing did
live, on which said twenty-fOurth day
of October, In the year aforesaid, in
the county of Cumberland aforesaid,
he, the said Uri Csrruth, of the said
mortal wound, died. Aud SO the
Grand Inquest, aforesaid, upon their
respective oaths, Aforesaid, do say,
that the said Charles K. Lsndis, him,
the said Uri Carruth, in manner and
form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully,
and of his malice aforesaid, did kill
and murder, contrary to the form OF
the statute in such case made and pro.
vided, against the peace of the State
the government and dignity OF the
same.