Fields v. State

The defendant was a constable of Williamson county, who had been indicted for extortion; and at the July term, 1824, the cause came on for trial, and he was convicted, and judgment given by the county court, that said Fields be removed from office, and fined ten dollars; from which judgment he appealed to the circuit court. The solicitor for the state then moved the court, that pending the prosecution in the courts above, Fields should be suspended from exercising the office of constable. Upon this motion, the court set forth, “that they are the same justices who sat upon the trial of the…