Indiana Supreme Court, 1859

State v. Stevens

State v. Stevens
Indiana Supreme Court · Decided January 14, 1859
11 Ind. 514

State v. Stevens

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This was a prosecution for malicious trespass, commenced, in the Common Pleas Court. Trial and conviction. Appeal to the Circuit Court.

The prosecution was begun in January, 1853; the appeal taken in May, 1853; and the cause dismissed in September, 1853, by the Circuit Court. It appears, by a bill of exceptions, that at the latter date the prosecuting attorney moved to dismiss the appeal, which motion the Circuit Court overruled, and, upon the prosecutor’s refusal to try the case in any other manner than as upon error, on motion of defendant, dismissed the case.

The appeal should have been dismissed. Langdon v. Applegate, 5 Ind. R. 328.—Kennon v. Shull, 9 id. 154.

The judgment is reversed, &c.

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