Clark v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of the statutory crime of nightriding. Crawford & Moses’ Digest, sec. 2795.

Appellant was jointly indicted with certain other persons upon the charge that he and the other persons named confederated and banded themselves together for the unlawful purpose of damaging and destroying the mining property of the Werner-Dunlap Coal Company. There was a severance, and on the trial of appellant there was, as before stated, a judgment of conviction, from which an appeal has been prosecuted.

At the first adjournment of the court after the commencement of the trial…