Justice v. State

Information against the appellant, charging, “that a man calling himself William Justice, being a person now in the custody of the sheriff of said county, on a charge of felony, before and without indictment by the grand jury, at the county of Knox, and State of Indiana, on or about December 4,1859, did, then and there, feloniously steal, take, carry, lead, and drive away, a certain brindle-colored milch cow, of the value of twenty-five dollars, being the personal property, then and there, of Thomas Bishop, then and there being found.”

On this information, the defendant was tried, convicted,…