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Case No. 16,483.
UNITED STATES v. THOMPKINS.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 46.]1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
June Term, 1812.
INDICTMENT FOR FORGERY.
The court will not quash an indictment because there was no previous presentment or order of the court.
F. S. Key, for defendant moved to quash the indictment because there had not been a previous presentment or order of the court; nor was it found by the grand jury of their own knowledge, according to the Maryland act of 1722 (chapter 5).
But THE COURT (FITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, absent) refused.
1 [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
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