Case ID: ind_169/html/0701-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gillett, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Metsker.
    [No. 21,092.
    Filed January 17, 1908.]
    From Marshall Circuit Court; Harry Bernetha, Judge.
    Prosecution, by the State against Clay W. Metsker. From a judgment for defendant, the State appeals.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      James Bingham, Attorney-General, A. C. Cavins, H. M. Dowling, E. M. White and J. A. Hotter, for the State.
    
      Charles Kellison and S. N. Stevens, for appellee.
   Gillett, J.

By the indictment in this case it was sought to charge appellant with the offense of knowingly presenting a false or fraudulent claim to a township trustee. The claim alleged to have been presented was on account of service rendered in the publication of the financial report of said officer. Appellee’s motion to quash was sustained, and the State appeals. The indictment is framed in substantially the same manner as in State v. Metsker (1908), ante, 555. On the authority of that case, we hold that a public offense was not stated.

The appeal is not sustained.