Schmidt v. State

The appellant was prosecuted in the court below on affidavit and information for a misdemeanor. Trial, conviction and judgment.

The sufficiency of the affidavit and information was called in question by motions to quash and in arrest, which were ■overruled.

The affidavit was as follows:

“Be it remembered, that on this day, before me, Daniel M. Ransdell, clerk of the criminal court of Marion county, In■diana, personally came William D. Griffin, who being duly .sworn, upon his oath says, that Charles Schmidt, on the 12th ■day of November, A. D. 1881, at and in the county of Marion, and State of…