Vanderpool v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Marion circuit court for the false imprisonment of John Clark, and was convicted, and fined $100. A motion for a new trial was made, and overruled.

The only evidence in the cause was the testimony of John Clark, the person the indictment charged to have been imprisoned, a witness for the State, who testified: That he was, within twelve months of the finding of the indictment by the grand jury, arrested under a warrant issued by the defendant, who was at the time a commissioner of the United States circuit court, upon a charge of obstructing the passage of the…