Hopewell v. State

— The indictment upon which appellant was convicted reads as follows: “The grand jurors of the county of Jackson, and State of Indiana, upon their oath present that John Hopewell on the 19th day of October, 1897, at said county, was then and there a policeman in the city of Seymour, and, while acting as such ministerial officer, he did then and there unlawfully and unnecessarily delay, and neglect to disperse and arrest a riotous mob, composed of persons whose names are unknown to said grand jurors, assembled for the purpose of unlawfully touching, beating, and striking Alexander A. Davidson…