Franklin v. Vandervort

MoWhorter, Judge:

The regular term .of the criminal court of Wood County was to begin on the 28th day of January, 1901, the regular judge thereof, Honorable J. M. Jackson, being sick and unable to attend, J. W. Yandervort was, by the attorneys present and practicing in said court, elected special judge and at once qualified as such judge to serve during the temporary absence of said Jackson. A grand jury was impaneled and among others returned on the 30th day of January, 1901, an indictment against W. G. Franklin and F. E. Ihrig for misdemeanor. Said defendants were tried jointly upon said…