Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year MDCCCLXVIII, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Northern Dis- trict of New York, by WILLIAM GOULD & SOn NOTE In addition to decisions made by the justices of the Supreme Court, this volume contains a few cases decided by the judges of other courts.

The prisoner, together with her husband, was indicted and tried for robberY The judge charged that if the husband was present at the time the intent to commit the offense was formed, the law presumed she acted under his compulsion; but if she formed the intent to commit the crime and actually commenced its consummation in his absence and without his knowledge, the fact that he afterwards arrived and aided in completing it did not create the presumption that she acted under his compulsion, and that whether the wife acted under the compulsion of her husband was a question for the jurY On writ of error brought by the prisoner, held, that the charge was not erroneous.

In an indictment for robbery in the first degree, the prisoner was charged with taking " bank bills of banks, to the jurors unknown, and of a num- ber and denomination to the jurors aforesaid unknown, of the value of forty-nine dollars, &c, &c," and the allegation was held to be sufficient.

Form of an indictment for robbery in the first degree.

THE prisoner and others pleaded not guilty to the fol- lowing indictment for robbery in the first degree : The jurors of the People of the State of New York, in in and for the body of the city and county of New York, upon their oath present: That Rosanna Quinlan, late of the First ward of the city of New York, in the county of New York aforesaid, James Quiulan, Margaret E M Smith, and Catharine Kinsley, late of the same place, on the fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun- dred and sixty-two, at the ward, city and county aforesaid, with force and arms, in and upon one Maria Brannigan, in the peace of the said people then and there being, feloni- ously did make an assault, and bank bills, of banks to the jurors aforesaid unknown, and of a number and denomi- nation to the jurors aforesaid unknown, of the value of forty-nine dollars, of the goods, chattels, and personal property of the said Maria Brannigan, from the person oi said Maria Brannigan, and against the will and by violence to the person of said Maria Brannigan, then and there violently and feloniously did rob, steal, take and carry away, against the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the people of the State of New York, and their dignitY The issue came on for trial on the 19th day of Novem- ber, 1862, at a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the city and county of New York, before John H.