State v. Cleveland

Defendant was indicted at the March, term, 1880, of the circuit court of Harrison county. The indictment contains two counts, but, owing to its length, we only incorporate that portion which presents the question we deem it necessary to notice. Omitting the formal parts the first count charges : “ That Samuel R. Cleveland, on the 5th day of March, 1877, being then and there an officer duly elected and qualified under the laws of the State of Missouri, to-wit, being the township trustee of Olay township, it being also known as township sixty-six and sixty-seven, in Harrison county and State of…