State v. Hopkins

Blackford, J.'

— -This was an indictment against Edward Hopkins, Benoni Stinson, and Simpson Ritchey, for neglecting and refusing, as county commissioners of Vanderburgh county, to fix the per centum on the taxable property in said county, necessary to be levied for road purposes. The defendants pleaded guilty. Judgment, that the defendants make their fine to the state in the sum of one cent, and that they pay costs, &c.

This judgment is erroneous because it is joint. If the defendants were liable on this indictment, they could only be so in their individual capacities; and there should have…