Williams v. State

The appellant was convicted for giving intoxicating liquor to a person in the habit of getting intoxicated. The prosecution originated before a justice of the peace.

In the circuit court, the appellant moved to dismiss the action, upon the ground that the justice had not copied the affidavit on his docket. The original affidavit was sent up with the appeal papers. In civil actions before a justice, the cause of action must be copied on his docket, but it is otherwise in criminal causes; it is not necessary to copy the accusation on his docket. Nash v. The State, 7 Ind. 666. There was no error…