State v. Smith

Gould, Associate Justice.

The indictment charges that the defendant, whilst he was the duly qualified and acting clerk of the District Court for Orange county, did “unlawfully acquire” from one Hebb, “the party interested,” certain jury scrip. It is evidently framed under article 1983, Paschal’s Digest, which makes it an offense for the “clerk or deputy clerk of any District or County Court, sheriff or his deputy, constable or coroner, or justice of the peace,” ‘ ‘ to purchase or otherwise acquire from the party interested any jury scrip or the fees coming to any witness,” the punishment being…