State v. Madden

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.

The appellant was indicted before a trial justice in Abbeville County, upon a charge of violating a written contract on the farm of one Mrs. Nichols, contrary to the statutes in such cases made and provided. This charge was contained in the affidavit upon which the warrant of arrest was issued, and in which said affidavit ivas set out, as follows: “That on the llth day of March, 1886, on the farm of Mrs. Nichols, in the county and State aforesaid, one Harriet Madden did violate a written contract, contrary to the statutes in…