Wagner v. State

Frank Wagner, Appellant, was charged by affidavit filed in Division Two of the Marion County Criminal Court with the crime of “Violation of the 1935 Narcotic Act, (as amended),” “Count One.” Omitting the formal parts, said affidavit was as follows:

“BE IT REMEMBERED, that, on this day, before me, Noble R. Pearcy, Prosecuting Attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, personally came William Owen, who being duly sworn, upon his oath says that Frank Wagner, on or about the 5th day of December, A.D. 1964, at and in the County of Marion in the State of Indiana, did then and there unlawfully and…