Howard v. State

This was a prosecution commenced and tried before the Mayor of the City of Richmond, and appealed to the Wayne Circuit Court, where the cause was tried by a jury, resulting in a conviction and a fine of twenty-five dollars. ,

The' affidavit on which the prosecution was based was as follows:

“ State of Indiana, Wayne County, ss.:

“ Personally appeared before the undersigned, Mayor of the City of Richmond, in said county and State, this 11th day of August, 1877, Thomas Yeager, of lawful age, who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, deposes and *517says that George Howard, late of Wayne…