Case Name: State of Minnesota vs. Peter Monson
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1889-06-27
Citations: 41 Minn. 140
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Minnesota vs. Peter Monson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 41
Pages: 140–141

Head Matter:
State of Minnesota vs. Peter Monson.
June 27, 1889.
Indictment — Form.—Indictment held good.
Appeal by defendant from .a judgment of the district court for Isanti county, where he was tried and convicted, before Bea, J., and a jury.
B. B. Forrest, for appellant.
Moses E. Clapp, Attorney General, and II. F. Barker, for the State.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This appeal is wholly without merit. The only point made is that the indictment did not charge the defendant with any crime, and the only defect suggested is that the name of the defendant is not repeated in the commencement of the indictment, after the title of the action, so that it reads as follows:
"The State of Minnesota vs. "Peter Monson
"Accused bythe grand jury by this indictment of the crime 0f # committed as follows(then follows the body of the indictment in proper form.) The defendant could not possibly have been prejudiced by the fact that his name in the title is used as the subject of the verb "accused" in the "commencement," which is, strictly speaking, no part of the indictment. The meaning is perfectly plain.
Judgment affirmed.