Republic of Texas v. Laughlin

BAYLOR, Justice.

In the District Court of Travis County, David Laughlin was tried on an indictment which charged him with having willfully, corruptly and erroneously taken and and demanded of one J. C. Tannehill a greater fee than is allowed by law for a certain judgment rendered by Laughlin as a justice of the peace for said county, in a civil action wherein one Wm. Y. Wood was plaintiff and said Tannehill was defendant, to-wit, the sum of twenty dollars in the promissory notes of the government; alleging said sum to be more than the fee allowed by law for costs in such cases; contrary to the…