People v. Chu Quong
People v. Chu Quong
Opinion of the Court
Field, C. J. concurring.
The second point is, that the Court erred in directing the jury to find specially in relation to a particular fact. This objection comes too late. It should have been taken in the Court below, and as this was not done, and as the defendant does not appear to have been prejudiced by the error, if an error was committed, we cannot consider it now.
Ho other points are made, and it follows that the judgment must be affirmed. Ordered accordingly.
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- The fifty-fourth section of the Act of April 16th, 1850, concerning Crimes and Punishments, (Wood’s Dig. 335) is not repealed by the Act of April 19th, 1856, (Statute 1856, 131) amendatory of, and supplementary to the Act of 1850. Section two of the Act of 1856, does not conflict with section fifty-four of the Act of 1850. These sections refer to a different class of offenses. Under the latter, the abduction must be accompanied with a removal into another county, State or territory, or a design to remove the party beyond the limits of the State. Under the former, the abduction need not be accompanied with any such removal or design—the intent to detain and conceal being the gist of the offense. An objection, that the Court below directed the jury to find specially, as to a particular fact, comes too late if made in the Supreme Court for the first time, it not appearing that the party objecting was injured by the direction.