State v. Maddox

This was a criminal prosecution commenced before a justice of the peace upon an affidavit, the body of which was as follows:

“ Sidney R. Patterson, upon his oath, says, that, on or about the 22d day' of October, 1881, in the county of Blackford, in the State of Indiana, one James J. Maddox did then and there feloniously and maliciously injure, tear down and destroy a rail fence then and there the property of the said Sidney R. Patterson, to the damage of said property in the sum of $50.”

The defendant was tried and convicted before the justice. He then appealed to the circuit court, where, upon…