State v. Odell

The defendant, Odell, was indicted in the Daviess Circuit Court for oppression under colour of his office as a justice of the peace. The indictment was founded on the 83d section of the 53d chapter of the Revised Statutes of 1843, and alleges that on, &c., the defendant being a justice of the peace, as such charged one Baldwin Howard with the offence of committing an assault and battery upon one Isaac Eaton, upon his, the said justice’s view, without complaint on oath or affirmation having been made; and that he verbally required the said Howard to appear before him, the said justice, to…