Imlay v. Rogers
This text of 7 N.J.L. 347 (Imlay v. Rogers) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of New Jersey primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Kinsey, O. J. and Smith, J. for granting a new trial.
Kirkpatrick, J. and Boudinot, J. against it.
Rule discharged.
In Fenwick's ease, in parliament, upon a bill of attainder, a member of the grand jury was admitted to give an account of the testimony upon which they found the indictment, o St. Tr. 72. In an anonymous case before Foster, J., reported Clayt. 84, at York assizes, the judge would not suffer a grand juryman to be produced as a witness, to swear what was given in evidence to them, because he is sworn not to reveal the secrets of his companions. 12 Vin. Abr. title Evidence, II. 1. And m Trials per Pais. 226, it is said, that a clerk attending upon a grand jury shall not be compelled to be a witness to reveal that which was given them in evidence. 12 Vin. Abr. 38, title Evidence B. a. 5.
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