Mitchell v. State

1. An indictment against a justice of the peace for the offense of malpractice in office, which charged that he “did wilfully, knowingly, and corruptly, in the administration and under color of his offiee, demand and receive from one M. H. Rothschild the sum of five dollars, which was demanded and received as a fee "or costs by the said [defendant] for ‘garnishee’s answer’ in the case of Norton Frierson vs. M. H. Rothschild, and Joseph Rosenheim Shoe Company, garnishee, *406a suit on an account then pending in the justice court of the said [defendant], when in truth and in fact the said…