Trittipo v. State

Prosecution by the state against the appellant, for a riot. Trial, conviction, and judgment, a motion for a new trial having been overruled.

*361The case is before us on the evidence. The riot proven against the defendant, was committed by him and others at the house of one Thomas Alvey, on the 1st of January, 1857, where, through the day, there was a chopping and sewing frolic, and a dance in the evening. In the evening the defendant and others, being uninvited, came* and perpetrated the riot.

On the trial, it appeared by the oral evidence, and the docket of one Joseph Wright, a justice of the…