Kistler v. State

In 1874, John Kistler was indicted and convicted of blackmailing Adam Ilereth, and was sent to the state-prison. At the May term of this court, in the year 1875, the judgment of conviction in that case was reversed on account of the insufficiency of the indictment. Kessler [Kistler] v. The State, 50 Ind. 229.

At the November term of the Marion Criminal Circuit *372Court, a new indictment was returned, charging the same offence, and as having been committed upon the same person. Trial thereon, conviction, and sentence of imprisonment in the state-prison. This judgment of conviction was reversed at…