State v. Hawkins

LüRTON, J.

Tlie cases of the State v. J. B. Hawkins and Wm. McMahon and State v. J. B. Hawkins and J. B. Smith were consolidated and ordered to be heard together.

A decree of the September Term, 1890, recites that the attorneys for the State demanded a jury to try the issues of fact to be submitted, and that a jury was duly impaneled and sworn to try the issues tendered and a true verdict render.

The bills of the State alleged, in substance:

First. — That an application was made to the Comptroller for pensions, under the Act of 1887, by the defendants J. B. Smith and Wm. McMahon; that J. B. Smith…