Graeter v. State

An indictment, in two counts, against the appellant, was duly returned into the court below by the grand jury of Knox county. On appellant’s motion, at the proper time, the first count of the indictment was quashed by the court below. The second count of the indictment contained a charge against the appellant of forcible entry, as the same is defined in section 12 of the “act defining misdemeanors and prescribing punishment therefor,” approved June 14th, 1852, 2 R. S. 1876, p. 457.

Upon this second count there was a trial by jury in the court below, and a verdict rendered, finding the…