7 Ind. 625 | Ind. | 1856
Joseph Pratt was prosecuted before a justice of the peace in Elkhart county, for an assault and battery, convicted, and fined 1 dollar. He obtained a new trial, took a change of venue to another justice, was tried and fined 3 dollars. He appealed to the Common Pleas, took a change of venue to the La Grcmge Commori Pleas, was tried, convicted, and fined 100 dollars. A new trial was denied. He appealed to this Court; and he here assigns for error specially—
1. That no information was filed against him in the Common Pleas.
2. That no affidavit was there filed against him.
3. The Court refused to hear certain evidence.
4. The Court refused to dismiss the cause for want of jurisdiction.
5. The Court refused to give a certain instruction asked.
As the cause went into the Common Pleas by appeal, no information was necessary, nor was any affidavit, other than that filed before the justice. That went up, in this case, with the appeal papers, and such should be the practice in all cases. The Court had jurisdiction, and rightly refused to dismiss the cause.
The evidence is not upon the record, nor is it stated that evidence was given to which the refused instruction would have been applicable. Hence, we can not say the instruction was wrongly refused.
The refusal to hear evidence is stated in the record as follows :
The state gave her evidence, the defendant his, and the state rebutted.
“ The defendant then offered to prove by witnesses who
The judgment is affirmed with costs.