Case Name: Lamb's case
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1793
Citations: 1 Mart. 156
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Lamb’s case.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 156–157

Head Matter:
*Lamb’s case.
Trin. 2 Car.
LAMB was indicted for forcery and witchcraft. Athow, Serj. took this exception to the indictment, that it was quod exsrcuit quasdam malas, execrabiles et diabolicas artes (anglice) witchcraft; which cannot be, for there is no Latin word signifying witchcraft—and the law of indictments is curious, (nice.)

Opinion:
Whitlock, J.
By the statute 36 E. 3. all pleas of the Crown ought to be in Latin; then those general words extend not to witchcraft in particular; ergo it is bad.