Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2022 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Angola Herald Wednesday, May 1, 1878 CIRCUIT COURT Circuit Court is still in session. The total number of cases, including those commenced since the term began, are 98. Of this number there are 18 criminal cases. The proceedings up to this date show a disposition of the doc- ket list as follows: Seventeen cases went by default, 9 cases were dismissed, 9 went to trial by court, and 8 were continued. There were 8 petitions for divorce - all granted. In three cases nollie prose's* were entered, in one case defendent plead guilty and was fined $0. There were two trials by jury. In the first, which occupied one or two days of last week, Dr. Abbott of Freemont, was defendant, charged with producing an abortion of the wife of Wm. Deck. Found guilty; fine $50 and 20 days in county jail. The second trial by jury was a suit brought against Edward Farrier, James B. Lauchland and George Lichbeider, charges with disturbing a religious meeting. The boys were acquitted, the ruling of the court being, in effect, that the meeting being held by persons calling themselves Latter Day Saints, it was not known in law as a "religious meeting," consequently there was no offense. There seems to be no law for Latter Day Saints, or Mormons, in this county. How is this, Judge? (*A declaration that the plaintiff in a civil case or the prosecutor in a criminal case will drop prosecution on all or part of a suit or indictment.) ==========================================================================