State v. Miller

An indictment, as follows, was duly returned into the Randolph Circuit Court:

“ The grand jurors of Randolph county, State of Indiana, duly empanelled,” etc., “ to enquire,” etc., “ on their oaths present, that one David Miller, late of said county, on the second day of September, A. D. 1876, at,” etc., “ did then and there unlawfully and feloniously steal, take and carry away of the personal goods and chattels of Conrad Meier one silver watch and chain, of the value of ■twenty-three dollars, contrary,” etc.

This indictment was returned on the 5th day of January, 1877, and was grounded on…