Case Name: THE STATE v. BERRIAN
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1850-01
Citations: 22 N.J.L. 679
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE STATE v. BERRIAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 679–679

Head Matter:
THE STATE v. BERRIAN.
This was a writ of error, brought by the state to remove the judgment of the Supreme Court reversing the judgment of the Middlesex Oyer and Terminer. The case is stated in full, and the arguments of counsel given in the report of the cause in the Supreme Court. Ante.

Opinion:
No written opinions were delivered in the Court of Errors, by whom the judgment of the Supreme Court was affirmed, and the judgment of the Oyer and Terminer was reversed ; nor does the vote by which it was reversed appear by the minutes of the court.
The president of the court (Chancellor Halsted) has furnished the reporter with the following memoranda from an endorsement on his notes.
The court resolved unanimously that, as a general rule, the use of figures in an indictment was illegal.
The court resolved, Judges Wall and Speer dissenting, that the indictment was not defective for the use of figures, as therein used.
But the court resolved, Justice Randolph dissenting, that the indictment in this case was otherwise defective, and therefore affirmed the judgment of the Supreme Court.