Court Opinion

ID: 6412287
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 11:53:35.911785+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:51:24.740995
License: Public Domain

Bigelow, J.
It is impossible for this court to determine whether there was a variance between the name of the person to whom the liquor is alleged to have been sold, as laid in the indictment and as proved at the trial. Difference in the mode of spelling a proper name does not necessarily show a variance. Archb. Crim. Pl. (10th ed.) 101. Rex v. Foster, Russ. & Ry. 412. The question often depends on pronunciation, and can only be determined by hearing the name spoken. So it was in the present case; and we have no means of ascertaining whether it was rightly determined or not.
It does not appear that the defendant asked that the jury might pass on the question of variance. It was decided by the court as a matter of law. If the defendant had a right to submit to the jury, as a question of fact, whether the name proved was idem sonans with that laid in the indictment, she should have claimed her right on the trial. By omitting to do so, she waived all claim to insist on the objection now.

Exceptions overruled.