Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1812

Hill v. Herbert

Hill v. Herbert
Supreme Court of New Jersey · Decided February 15, 1812
3 N.J.L. 925

Hill v. Herbert

Opinion of the Court

By the Court. — It

is necessary to set out each separate distinct offence. In penal actions, it is not sufficient for the plaintiff to charge the defendant in general terms, with the *484commission of ten or any other number of oifences, but he must set them out with certainty.

Judgment reversed.1

Cited in Kerr v. Karker, 2 Halst. 349. Distinguished in Johnson v. Barclay, 1 Harr. 1 and 5.

S. P. ante, 411, 516.

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