Legal Opinion

Buckner v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1877PublishedCited by 7 opinions

From the Morgan Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

• Worden, J.

The record in this case shows the following entry, viz.:

“ State of Indiana v. Thomas J. Buckner. Selling without license. Indictment burned.”

There is no indictment or charge of any kind against the defendant in the record. The defendant was tried, convicted, and fined in the sum of twenty-five dollars. He moved in arrest of judgment, but his motion was overruled, and he excepted. There is no charge in the *209record on which a judgment against the defendant could have been based, and the motion in arrest should have been sustained. If the indictment was burned, and there was no record…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bailey v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1872

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Schoonover v. ReedIndiana Supreme Court · 1879
  2. State v. RiversSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
  3. Roberson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1903
  4. Pate v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1886
  5. State v. BullSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1912

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