Court Opinion

ID: 8329242
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:36:12.904695+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:45:24.950964
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Doderidge, J.
The indictment is well on that part: for it is said that Willow, being of evil same, &c. suit nocte vagrans. and this is to be intended communis nocte vagrans. At common law, every man may arrest a night-walker, and Rastal says that the statute of Winton is the common law; but he shall be dismissed if nothing suspicious appears: but it is otherwise here. Even if the indictment was good in part and bad in part, it would not be quashed.
Whitlock, J. assented.
Whereupon Willow was fined 40s.