Sawyer v. State

This was a prosecution instituted in the Hendriehs Circuit Court, against Iredel Sawyer and Thornton Sawyer; against the former, for the murder of James Goojoer, and against the latter as an accessory before the fact. The indictment was returned into Court on Augusts, 1859; *94the title thereof entered on the order book of the Court, and the same duly recorded in the indictment record of Hendricks county. At the August term, 1859, Thornton Sawyer was tried separately, and convicted; and at the February term, 1860, Iredel Sawyer, on affidavit, obtained a change of venue to Johnson county. And it…