Porter v. State

Indictment against Cornelius Porter for a rape on the body of Margaret Mayo.

The defendant was convicted.

The record states that the indictment was found at an adjourned term of the Randolph Circuit Court, begun and held, &c. To the finding of the indictment at such a term the plaintiff in error, Porter, objects. Section 20, p. 625, R. S. enacts that, “Whenever, from the prevalence of disease at any place where any Court is by law appointed to be held, it shall be deemed dangerous or impracticable to hold such Court at the time required by law, it shall be lawful for such Court to meet at any…