
    GENERAL COURT,
    MAY TERM, 1790.
    
    State of Maryland against Christopher Hughes.
    THIS was an indictment found against Christopher Hughes for an assault and battery. The traverser, by Richard Potts and Philip B. Key, his attorneys, prayed oyer of the indictment, which being read and heard, the said Christopher prayed judgment of the said indictment, because “ that by the form of the statute in such cases made and provided, the addition of the estate, or degree, or mystery of him the said Christopher ought to be contained in the said indictment, which he was ready to verify; wherefore, for that such addition was not contained in the said indictment, he prayed judgment of the said indictment, and that the same be quashed,” &c. The Attorney-General (Martin) demurred generally to the traverser’s plea.
   The General Court quashed the indictment.  