Swails v. State

Indictment against Swails for the forcible entry and detainer of a school-house, the property of a common-school district. Plea, not guilty. The issue was found for the state, and the defendant was fined.

*517It was proved upon the trial that George McLaughlin, Zenas Darnall and William Butcher, acting in the capacity of trustees of the district, had employed one Simpson Darnall to teach in the school-house of the district mentioned in the indictment; that said Simpson Darnall, on the morning school was to commence, repaired to the school-house; and that the defendant was standing in the door of…