Case Name: The United States vs. Robert Crittenden
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1828-10
Citations: 1 Ark. Terr. Rep. 61
Docket Number: 
Parties: The United States vs. Robert Crittenden.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas, from 1820 to 1836
Volume: 1
Pages: 61–61

Head Matter:
The United States vs. Robert Crittenden.
1. Indictment is quashable in which the time is alleged “on or about” such a day.
2. It is also quashable for failing to conclude “ against the peace and dignity of the United States.”
October, 1828.
— Indictment for sending a challenge to fight a duel, determined before Benjamin Johnson, Thomas P. Eskridge, James Woodson Bates, and William Trimble, judges.

Opinion:
Opinion oe the Court. — The defendant moved the court to quash the indictment, because the time therein stated was in the alternative " on or about," and because the indictment does-not conclude "against the peace and dignity of the United States;" and the parties being heard, and full consideration thereof had, it is the opinion of the court that for either of the objections the indictment should be quashed.
Indictment quashed, and defendant discharged.