Case ID: ky-op_12/html/0158-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hargis:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Hiram T. Herrin.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 4 — 989. ]
    Criminal Law — Usurpation of Office,
    An indictment is not good which charges that the accused usurped an office by exercising the duties thereof without executing an official bond which was required by law to be executed, the indictment not charging that the accused was ineligible or not elected to the office or that he had not taken the oath of office.
    APPEAL FROM WEBSTER CIRCUIT COURT.
    May 12, 1883.
   Opinion by

Judge Hargis:

The appellee was indicted for the usurpation of the office of chairman of the board of trustees of the- town of Dixon. The acts constituting the offense are charged to be that he exercised the duties of the office without executing an official bond which he was required by law to do before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office.

The indictment does not charge that he was ineligible or not elected to the office, or that he had not taken the oath of office, and we are therefore of the opinion that the demurrer was properly sustained to the indictment. Brown v. Grover’s Administrator, 6 Bush (Ky.) 1; Commonwealth v. Cook, 8 Bush (Ky.) 220, 8 Am. Rep. 456; Patterson v. Miller, 2 Metc. (Ky.) 493.

P. W. Hardin, for appellant.

Judgment affirmed.