Trant v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners

— This was a proceeding brought by the board of commissioners of Grant county against appellant to collect, by writ of mandate from Blackford county, the expense of the trial of a criminal case, which originated in the said last named county and on change of venue was tried in Grant county.

The facts, so far as they are necessary to the decision of the questions raised, are as follows:

John Sage was charged, by indictment in the Blackford Circuit Court, with the crime of murder. He procured a change of venue to Grant county, where there was a trial and conviction, motion in arrest of judgment…