Sawyer v. State

Indictment in the Hendricks Circuit Court, charging Iredell Sawyer with the murder of James H. Cooper, and Thornton Sawyer as an aider and abettor of the murder.

The case now before us is the record of the trial of Thornton Sawyer, for aiding, &c. The indictment in the case is good enough, in itself considered. It first accurately charges the murder by Iredell; and, in a second paragraph, the aiding and abetting of that murder by Thornton.

The trial in the Court below, in its actual proceedings, was regular and formal, but, on appeal to this Court, the record does not show who the grand jury…