Doty v. State

This was an indictment for larceny found in the Steuben Circuit Court. The defendant below was tried in the LaGrange Circuit Court, and found guilty of petit larceny. The verdict, among other things, disfranchised the prisoner from holding any “office of trust.” The judgment founded on that part of the verdict was that he be disfranchised from holding any “office of trust or profit.”

The record does not show how the cause was transferred from the Steuben to the LaGrange Circuit Court, nor does it show that any objection was made to the jurisdiction of the latter Court.

*The errors assigned are,…