State v. Flemons

The defendant was arrested and examined before a justice of the peace, on the 1st day of April, 1853, on a charge of open and notorious adultery, of which she was found guilty by the justice, and recognized to appear in the Court of Common Pleas to answer to said charge. The justice filed a transcript of his proceedings, with the affidavit and other papers in the cause, in the Common Pleas, on the 4th day of April, being the .first day of the term; and on the same day the district attorney filed an information against the defendant, embodying the charge contained in the affidavit. On the…