State v. Noel

The indictment in this case, which was found at the March term, 1840, of the Allen Circuit Court, charges that the defendant was an acting and duly qualified justice of the peace in Allen county; that on the 1st day of January, 1840, “he had in his hands a certain sum of money, to wit, the sum of five dollars, being money received by the said Noel, justice of the peace as aforesaid, for a fine assessed by him the said Noel against one Charles Iiillsworth, and set apart by law for seminary purposes in the said county of Allen; yet the said Noel, as justice of the peace as aforesaid, failed and…