Case Name: UNITED STATES v. JAMESSON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-07
Citations: 26 F. Cas. 585
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. JAMESSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 26
Pages: 585–585

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,466.
UNITED STATES v. JAMESSON.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 62.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1801.
Criminal Law—Arrest of Jüdgm bnt—Defective Indictment—Misdemeanors.
1. The want of the name of a prosecutor at the -foot of the indictment is not a good ground for arresting the judgment.
2. A capias is proper process upon an indictment for misdemeanor.
Indictment [against R. B. Jamesson] for assault and battery. Motion in arrest of judgment: 1st. Because there is no name of a prosecutor indorsed on the indictment, agreeably to the act of Virginia. .Rev. Code, p. 112, § 24. 2d. Because a capias was not the proper process. Id. § 28.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
THE COURT
was of opinion that the 24th section applied only to cases where an information was filed without a previous presentment. There may not be a prosecutor, and crimes ought not to go unpunished.
Motion overruled and judgment entered.