Case v. State

Indictment for grand larceny.

On the first day of the August term, 1853, of the Franklin Circuit Court, being the first of that month, the clerk, auditor and sheriff of Franklin county appointed John Ryman to preside at said term. That appointment was duly entered upon the order-book of the court, and reads thus: “ We, John M. Johnson, clerk, Andrew S. Me Cleary, auditor, and Michael Batzner, sheriff, hereby appoint John Ryman, Esq., an attorney of the Franklin Circuit Court, being a court of record, to preside at the August term, 1853, of said court, as judge thereof; the judge of said court…