Moses v. State

Prosecution against the appellant, commenced before a justice of the peace, for maintaining a public nuisance.

The affidavit, after entitling the case, is in the following words:

“ Henry Jones, being duly sworn, on his oath swears, that on or about the 24th day of July,- 1876, at said county, and near the city of Madison, and at divers other times before said day and the commencement of this action, at and near the dwelling-houses of affiant and divers citizens of said place and county, said Moses did unlawfully maintain, and cause and procure to be maintained, a slaughter-house, for the…