State v. Hodgin

The appellee and eight others were charged, by an indictment in five counts, with a conspiracy to commit personal violence upon the prosecuting witness.

The record contains the indictment, a verdict of not guilty, in the case entitled “The State of Indiana v. Leonard B. Hodgin et al.,” and a judgment, under the same title, that “the defendant go hence.”

The record next presents a bill of exceptions which, together with the order-book entry of its filing, is entitled, in the same form, as in a cause against all of the defendants. There is no recital in the bill, nor does it otherwise appear from…