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1779. Sessions. [Tuesday] June 29.

Mr. Tilghman. The Indictment having been read, I now move that this Indictment may be Quash’d.
And this Motion I ground on the General Rule laid down in Hawkins the 2d Volume ch. 25, §146; or in the Old Edition §148, page Which rule is this, that where the Court see that