State v. Feagans

Tlie indictment in this appeal is based on section 2136, Burns’ E. S. 1894, which forbids cer*622tain officers therein mentioned from becoming interested in public contracts, under the penalty of a fine and imprisonment in the State’s prison. The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “that Richard Feagans, on the 25th day of July, A. D., 1894, at and in the county of Daviess and State of Indiana, was then and there a duly elected, qualified, and acting councilman for the city of Washington in said county and State, did then and there while being such councilman unlawfully and feloniously…