Bankus v. State

Indictment for a riot. Jury trial, conviction, motion for a new trial overruled, and judgment against the defendants.

The bill of exceptions in the case states the substance of the evidence given as follows: “Jesse Bankus, Lewis Simpson, William Woods, and William McShirely, four of the defendants, were on trial, and three witnesses were examined on the part of the state, (one of whom was engaged in the alleged riot with the defendants), whose tes*115timony tended to prove that on a certain evening, within a year before the finding of said indictment, at the county of Henry, the above-named…