State v. Record

Information against the appellee for fornication. Plea, not guilty; trial by jury; conviction, and judgment arrested and the defendant discharged. The State appeals.

The Court was held and the proceedings had in October, 1859, and, as we infer, before the 25th day of the month. The affidavit on which the information was based, sworn to on October 13, 1859, charges that the defendant, on October 20, 1858, and from that day until September 25, 1859, lived in open and notorious fornication with Maria Hill.

The information, with some confusion of dates, charges that he lived in such fornication…