State v. . Murdock

from Lincoln:

Ruffin, J.

John Murdock, the defendant of record, was. tried in a court of a justice of the peace--upon a charge of removing crops from certain lands, whereof he was a tenant, without paying rents, or giving the notice required by law.

The warrant, under which he was tried, was based upon the oath of the prosecutor Michal. On the trial before the justice he was acquitted, and thereupon that.court adjudged that the prosecutor pay the costs.

An appeal was taken by the prosecutor to the superior court, where the defendant Murdock moved to dismiss the appeal as to himself, on the ground…