State v. Conlee

The indictment is as follows: “The grand jury of.the county of Webster, in the name and by the authority of the State of Iowa, accuse Josiah Conlee, John Wilson, A. Graves, G. T. Richey, John Linn, N. II. Hart, A. S. White, C. C. Carter, D. C. Russell, D. W. Prindle, C. W. Maher and J. M. Henderson, of the crime of willful misconduct in office in ordering the erection of bridges at a cost of more than $5,000 each, without first submitting a proposition therefor to the legal voters of *239said county; committed as follows: The said Josiah Con-lee and others (naming them), on the 4th day of…