Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 7

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Page 644 - We, the jury, find the defendant guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment;' and, if you find him not guilty, you will say, • We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty.
Page 34 - Judgment according as the very Right of the Cause and Matter in Law shall appear unto them...
Page 195 - When perpetrated from a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of any human being: 2. When perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual : 3.
Page 488 - P.,, page 255, and which apparently was written as a last will and testament with his signature affixed on March 4, 1847. His will is as follows: "I Wright Roberts being of sound and perfect mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made.
Page 16 - It is a general principle that the party who sets up a title must furnish the evidence necessary to support it. If the validity of a deed depends on an act in pais, the party claiming under that deed is as much bound to prove the performance of the act as he would be bound to prove any matter of record on which its validity might depend. It forms a part of his title; it is a link in the chain which is essential to its continuity, and which it is incumbent on him to preserve. These facts should be...
Page 197 - Yet in many instances", where contrary to evidence the jury have found the prisoner guilty, their verdict hath been mercifully set aside, and a new trial granted by the court of king's bench ! for in such case, as hath been said, it cannot be set right by attaint.
Page 382 - ... it is competent to the parties, at any time before breach of it, by a new contract not in writing, either altogether to waive, dissolve, or annul the former agreement, or in any manner to add to, or subtract from, or vary or qualify the terms of it, and thus to make a new contract, which is to be proved partly by the written agreement and partly by the subsequent verbal terms engrafted upon what will be thus left of the written agreement.
Page 123 - An act for the better regulation of the ordnance department," and so much of the second section of the act, entitled " An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment, of the United States...
Page 537 - ... authenticity of seals, remained very long among us ; for it was held in all our books that sealing alone was sufficient to authenticate a deed; and so the common form of attesting deeds, "sealed and delivered," continues to this day: notwithstanding the statute 29 Car.
Page 165 - The president and associate judges, in their respective counties, shall have common law and chancery jurisdiction, as also complete criminal jurisdiction, in all such cases, and in such manner, as may be prescribed by law. The president alone, in the absence of the associate judges, or the president and one of the associate judges, in the absence of the other, shall be competent to hold a court, as also the two associate judges, in the absence of the president, shall be competent to hold a court,...

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