7 Cow. 332 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1827
The judge was correct. It was decided in Shadgett v. Clipson, (8 East, 328,) that the defendant could not justify an arrest of the plaintiff by a wrong name, though he was the person intended to be arrested, unless it was shown that he was known by one name as well as the other. There was no offer to show
New trial denied.
See Waterman’s Arch. Cr. Practice & Pl. tit. Arrest; Barb. Cr. Law, p. 525.