Ross v. State

The appellant was charged, by affidavit, in the police court of the city of Indianapolis, with the offense of following his usual avocation on Sunday. Upon conviction, he appealed to the Criminal Court of Marion county, where he was again tried and convicted.

The criminal court overruled a motion to quash the affidavit. For this supposed error, the appellant asks us to reverse the judgment.

One of the alleged defects in the affidavit consists in the fact that in the jurat the year in which the same was subscribed and sworn to is given as 189 — . It is apparent that this was a mere clerical…