Nobles v. Mayor & Aldermen

The defendant was charged in the recorder’s court with “making improper proposals to Miss Sadie Schwarz,” and under this charge evidence was introduced. After all the testimony was concluded the charge was changed upon the docket by the court to “disorderly conduct by making improper proposals to Miss Sadie Schwarz.” The defendant was found guilty and sentenced for the latter ofEense. We thus have a defendant convicted of a .charge under which no evidence whatever was submitted. The writer knows of no law which authorizes a change of the charge against the accused after all the evidence has…